At home the DUP spurns Irishness, but when abroad it embraces it
The party’s code-switching in the US recently plays to negative stereotypes of unionism as a shallow identity. But could it be a response to a deeper shift?
Ian Paisley
Ken Reid obituary: Journalist who covered Northern Ireland from war to peace
Reid had an agreeable nature and could make friends with anybody
‘We live in a messy world’: Harold Good became internationally known as a witness to IRA decommissioning
Former Methodist Church president Harold Good, whose house played a prominent role in in ending The Troubles, opens up about the challenges of peacemakers
Agreement: No play about the Good Friday negotiations has the right to be this much fun
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Owen McCafferty’s writing cuts through the Belfast peace talks’ seriousness to find levity in personal stakes and political bluster
Who are these Trump supporters who hate elites and love God and the Good Book? They’re the Ulster-Scots
Here’s what you need to do if you want to understand a certain slice of the America
The fall of Ian Paisley junior and the house of Paisley
Jim Allister ousted Ian junior, 54 years after Ian senior had won the North Antrim seat
Starmer win offers Anglo-Irish relations ‘reset’
Labour is preparing for power after the UK election saw the Tories swept out of office while in Dublin, officials are hoping for improved relations with our neighbour
Stephen Grimason obituary: First journalist to get a copy of Belfast Agreement
‘I believe I was given the document to nudge [the agreement] over the line,’ he later said
‘After a few thumps, they let go of me’: Veteran editor on covering the North from Troubles to today
Noel Doran singles out the murder of Patrick Kielty’s father in 1988 in influencing his outlook as editor of Irish News for 25 years
Jeffrey Donaldson, at the heart of Northern Irish politics for nearly 40 years
From Enoch Powell to post-Brexit negotiations, former DUP leader has been an influential figure for decades
Eyewitness to War and Peace by Eamonn Mallie: recollections of a passing era
Reporter looks back on a lifetime’s work during the Troubles in Northern Ireland
Eamonn Mallie: ‘Emma Little-Pengelly is much more cross-culturally aware than any DUP people I know’
Mallie, once the voice of The Troubles on radio, looks backwards and ahead for Northern Ireland
John Bruton’s blog is a treasure trove of wisdom, decency, good humour and the odd rebuke
Late Taoiseach wondered why the Irish reaction to a challenge to the consensus was to look for ulterior motives
Peace process has taught politicians how to grow tribal vote through stubbornness
Newly released State papers shed light on the years immediately after the Belfast Agreement, so much of which is still in dispute or open to interpretation
Gavin Esler on British politics: ‘We’ve got a lot of fairly rotten people in parliament’
The former BBC journalist on working in Belfast in the 1970s, why unionist pessimism is justified, and the lack of ‘good chaps’ in Westminster
The beauty of rugby is that it has always recognised Ireland’s complex identities
The contemporary Irish rugby team can define its identity in its own way, regardless of the songs being sung
Founding DUP member says there is an ‘inevitability’ about some form of Irish unity
Wallace Thompson expresses willingness to talk to groups such as the civic pro-unity organisation Ireland’s Future
Ian Paisley jr and the mock-cock-rock of Kiss: Strange things happen behind the privet hedges of North Antrim
Hugh Linehan: Gene Simmons and Nick Cave represent two very different strands of musical conservatism
Kiss rocker Gene Simmons visits House of Commons as Ian Paisley’s guest
North Antrim MP joked that bassist was planning ‘a private concert as a DUP fundraiser’
‘For God and Ulster’: Adrenaline coursed through my veins. A red mist descended over those around me
Aaron Edwards: Although my recollections of the angry confrontation during the marching season in 2001 emphasise conflict, behind the scenes it was a different matter
‘I have it in my hand’: The journalist who broke the story of the Belfast Agreement
Unionists were wavering and the future uncertain when Stephen Grimason revealed the deal on Good Friday 1998
The Agreement part 2: When U2 showmanship helped conquer the foundering Yes campaign
Pacy and detailed film examines complicated factors at play in run-up to Belfast Agreement referendum
TV guide: 12 of the best shows to watch this week, beginning tonight
Claire Byrne’s hosts new quiz show Ireland Smartest, Paul Mescal up for another acting prize at the Olivier Awards, Lily Allen’s TV acting debut in Dreamland and the final of Home of the Year
DUP seeks to distance itself from Paisley’s downbeat Windsor Framework reaction
Former British prime minister Boris Johnson and former president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, also weighed in on Thursday
NI secretary pledges to call Assembly election if Stormont not restored by end of month
Executive must be formed by October 28th to avoid new poll, Chris Heaton-Harris says
David Trimble understood that unionism had to change
UUP leader took a difficult path and in the end, even unionism’s most entrenched enemies of change adopted his approach
Michelle O’Neill ‘not hung up’ on what to call Northern Ireland
Sinn Féin vice-president meeting with Conservative MPs in Westminster
Newton Emerson: Tetchy Tánaiste stirs the Stormont pot
Joint authority between two governments barely speaking is an absurdity
In1921/1922 the North saw some of the most intense violence in Ireland
Catholic civilians bore brunt of retaliations for ongoing IRA assassinations
Jim Allister’s big test: Can unionist firebrand move in from the margins?
Assembly elections will reveal if relentlessly negative messaging can be turned into votes
London police review decision not to investigate Downing Street gathering
Move follows emergence of photograph of Boris Johnson near sparkling wine
UK secretary for Northern Ireland rules out early Stormont election
‘It’s right we allow MLAs time and space to pass legislation,’ Brandon Lewis says
Branagh’s Belfast is right, unionists didn't have a problem calling themselves Irish
Donald Clarke: Even Ian Paisley saw no contradiction in being both British and Irish
TUV’s Jim Allister strikes wrong note on paedophile Tweed
Analysis: Allister described Tweed as ‘larger than life’ and said he had been ‘saddened’ to learn of death
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