On Nolan on Friday we discussed Colum Eastwood’s claim that as an MP he often found it easier to get things done when ...

O what has made that sudden noise? What on the threshold stands? It never crossed the sea because John Bull and the sea are ...

Imagine the setting – a partly forested mountain stretching down to the sea, kilt clad adults ambling about the promenade while their kilt clad children mob the ice cream trucks on an ...

DeBeer is a one-off essay writer with influences from all over Northern Ireland and slightly beyond…’Aye one-off all right’…one-off until the next time… I did a double-take recently when I read that ...

FiFi Garrett is a politically savvy Essex native now rooted in rural Northern Ireland, living just outside Derry-Londonderry. Visit her site. On Tuesday, I went to a Féile talk held at Holywell Trust ...

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Bonfires don’t play the same role in Republicanism that they do in the Loyalist and Unionist celebrations around the Twelfth. An earlier tradition of lighting bonfires to celebrate the Catholic feast ...

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