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I’m not sure I’ll ever get over the shock at the number of English people I personally knew who not only thought it was ok for soldiers to shoot *civilians

The problem with articles like this - on so-called peace walls - is their implicit retention of the ‘unexplainable North’ narrative due to a lack of historic depth and recognition

It is strange to come from NI, where political identity - as British or Irish - can seem so central, to then move to RoI or across to Britain you

Northern Ireland is a complicated place with a difficult history that has been caught in cycles of violence for what feels like forever. The reasons for it are never one-dimensional

Excellent essay on the ‘misremembering’ (or to use Beiner’s phrase about NI radical Protestants ‘forgetful remembering) of British Empire. One stark argument stands out for me - the need to

A tale of two biographies? Sir Hans Sloane, founder of the British Museum, interior collector and slave ownerHere is the rather partial biography from RTE / EPIC: all discoveries, collections

The media reporting on the removal of orientalising and sexualising 19thC decorative arts outside an international 5 * hotel in Dublin has been disappointing. There have been many opinions on

Yet another #Irishslave article that has some interesting points but seems to be to be trying to find the slimmest of angles when, without in-depth archival reference in a much

Eva Gore-Booth is an important Irish woman who is frequently overlooked due to her proximity to her famous sister (Countess Markievicz). Her amazing papers can be perused @PRONI_DFC - I