One of the recurring themes of this blog is that the people and politicians of the Republic are utterly unprepared for the ...

The story of militant Irish Republicanism in America during the conflict in the North is on film for the first time in ...

A Northern Ireland inquest found that British soldiers killed unarmed innocent civilians in a massacre in Belfast during three chaotic days in 1971, foreshadowing the horrors of Bloody Sunday six ...

Once a brutal fixture of life in many communities, paramilitary-style ‘punishment’ attacks are in steep decline ...