Politics

Making sense of political events, decisions and ideas directly affecting Northern Ireland. Given their geographical proximity, events in Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland will be included in this section

Obama, shared identity and hope for tomorrow

Connor DalyApril 24, 2016

“I am afraid. Afraid of the land that I live in… I have never known peace.” Excerpted from a poem entitled “No Hope for Tomorrow,” written during the Trouble... Read More...

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“A vague, chaotic and somber nightmare”: San Francisco in the shadow of 1906

Gah-Kai LeungApril 22, 2016

Thus wrote the journalist James Hopper, summing up the mood in San Francisco after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake ripped through the city. The disaster claimed more... Read More...

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Is the US Republican Party imploding?

Connor DalyApril 19, 2016

Purpose, teamwork and communicating ideas have been central to a successful US Republican Party for well over a century, but lately it seems the Grand Old Party... Read More...

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1916-2016: Ireland, then and now

Gah-Kai LeungApril 10, 2016

On Easter Monday 1916, the Irish republican Pádraig Pearse stepped in front of the General Post Office in Dublin and declared a new Irish Republic. The famous P... Read More...

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Decisions are made by those who turn up

Connor DalyApril 5, 2016

Two groups set to transform, maintain or resuscitate the shape and tone of politics on these islands, this continent and even the world in 2016 – whatever way y... Read More...

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Our shared history, and the 82 long years between Easter and Good Friday

Jamie PowMarch 27, 2016

“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” In this year of centenaries, the words of the Irish philosopher and politician, Edmund Burke, are as p... Read More...

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