Agreement: No play about the Good Friday negotiations has the right to be this much fun
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Owen McCafferty’s writing cuts through the Belfast peace talks’ seriousness to find levity in personal stakes and political bluster
Mo Mowlam
Mitchell Scholars programme ‘faces closure unless reliable funding can be secured’
‘Everybody loves the programme but nobody wants to pay for it,’ Trina Vargo of the US-Ireland Alliance says
Blair told Mowlam to put abortion law reform ‘on ice’ 20 years before it was legalised in North
Prime minister’s private secretary wrote that Blair ‘sees little scope for bi-communal support for a change to the law’
‘They attempted to kill John – they attempted to kill his family’: John Hume, the IRA and decades of death threats
Loyalists and republicans were opposed to the SDLP leader’s efforts to achieve a peaceful settlement in Northern Ireland, as these extracts from a new book by Stephen Walker show
Civil servants advised to assume UK ministers’ relative ignorance on North, new files show
Secretary of state Mo Mowlam’s evidence to Northern Irish Affairs Committee in Westminster in May 1999 necessitated 12 clarifications and corrections, files show
Bertie Ahern ‘had the kind of BS I always wished I had’, says Bill Clinton
Former taoiseach, former US president and Tony Blair - key figures in sealing Belfast Agreement - recall turbulent time of accord negotiation at Queen’s University Belfast conference
The Agreement part 2: When U2 showmanship helped conquer the foundering Yes campaign
Pacy and detailed film examines complicated factors at play in run-up to Belfast Agreement referendum
Bertie Ahern’s podcast tells a powerful story
Podcast review: Former taoiseach’s tone is conversational rather than confrontational
Agreement: An outstanding evening, a landmark play, a thoroughly deserved five stars
Theatre: Owen McCafferty’s searing new dramatisation of the Belfast Agreement negotiations is a political thriller with echoes of Greek drama
Kathy Sheridan: Jibes about appearance will deprive us of good people in public roles
The public will be the losers when it comes to personal abuse targeting politicians
North’s Assembly elections should be postponed by a year, Julian Smith says
Ex-secretary of state says he has ‘no hard feelings’ over being sacked by Boris Johnson
Newton Emerson: Republic needs to steer Sinn Féin endlessly towards politics
Newton Emerson: Party’s new southern supporters unaware of what they have let over the threshold
A journey from the Derry march that ignited the Troubles to Belfast Pride
The North 50 years on: Many of the 4,000 dead are remembered only by their families
Mo Mowlam play park reopens in Belfast after £800,000 investment
Public amenity at Stormont estate features a multi-sensory area for children with autism
Seamus Mallon: Tony Blair said to me, ‘The trouble with you fellows is you have no guns’
The former SDLP leader on John Hume, the IRA and what’s next for Northern Ireland
Belfast Agreement shows it is possible to achieve great good in politics
Pat Leahy: politics has been described as a combination of high purpose and low cunning
Fragile foundations of Belfast Agreement undermined
The 1998 agreement has been implemented neither in spirit nor in practice
The inside story of how the Belfast Agreement was struck
Confidential notes of Tony Blair’s private secretary reveal see-saw nature of the talks
Patrick Kielty: ‘I liked Arlene Foster. That confused me’
Review: When Patrick Kielty was 16, his father was murdered. He could have sought revenge. Instead, he chose comedy
Billy Hutchinson interview: ‘You can’t be a loyalist and a criminal at the same time’
A central figure in Good Friday negotiations, PUP leader is on political margins, 20 years on
‘Hand of history’ helped sign off on peace process
Twenty years ago, a team concluded negotiations that sealed Belfast Agreement
Labour MP who put Northern Ireland centre stage in British politics
Obituary: Kevin McNamara. Born: September 5th, 1934. Died: August 6th, 2017
Former British Labour MP Kevin McNamara dies at 82
McNamara served as spokesman on Northern Ireland from 1987 to 1995
Walk for the weekend: Take a tour of the two Derrys
There's a frank walking tour of the Bogside, with a broader perspective from city walls
Julie Walters taps into her inner Mayo woman
The actor, who has channelled her Irish side once more for the film ‘Brooklyn’, talks about the class divide, Irish nuns and Mo Mowlam
Paul Murphy and Peter Hain elevated to House of Lords
Both politicians served in Northern Ireland at critical times of the peace process
Equine and floral painter Nicola Russell dies, aged 51
Artist also specialised in portraits including subjects such as Bill Clinton and Mo Mowlam
PSNI officer says any on-the-run letters inquiry could take up to a decade
Peter Mandelson gives evidence to committee
A minister with a refreshing frankness – his strength and Achilles heel
Apart from frankness, Varadkar has other assets. He is young, competent and telegenic
Trimble denies knowledge of on-the-runs scheme
Former Northern Ireland first minister claims Sinn Fein used letters for disciplinary purposes
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