Loyalism and Paramilitarism since 1920
A country with a turbulent past
At the weekend, Sinn Féín leader Mary-Lou McDonald told the party’s Ard Fheis that partition was nothing to be celebrated. That view is shared, according to the polls, by the majority of Irish voters, so McDonald was on safe ground. The incomprehensible folly of the government parties in firstly seeking to commemorate the RIC, and then being seen […]
Identity politics is as much about the collapse of old identities as the forging of new ones. The current discussion about how the centenary anniversary of Ireland’s partition should be marked shows how radically political identities can be re-constructed over time. When Michéal Martin stood up in Dail Éireann about a year ago and declared […]