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The best graphic novels of 2018
This year saw the first graphic novel to be nominated for a Man Booker prize
Stop investigations of Troubles killings, UK political figures urge
Former Northern secretaries argue better to spend £150m on victims and survivors
Margaret Thatcher doubted Irish resolve to combat terrorism
Files from 1988 show prime minister was angry at Garda and Haughey response to IRA
Haughey told Thatcher that Ireland was financially ‘up against the wall’
State Papers 1987: Then taoiseach jokingly asked for loan of ‘£2bn or so’ from British PM
‘Tough nuts’ Haughey and Thatcher get reacquainted as London says it’s business as usual
The nightmare for any Irish government was the extradition of an innocent citizen who would be wrongly jailed
Sinn Fein denies Gerry Adams ‘set up’ IRA Loughgall ambush
State Papers 1987: Sinn Féin president was accused of being behind the killings
Cost of running IRA was ‘up to £3m a year’ in 1980s
RUC chief told ministers the Provos had ‘no shortage of money to purchase weapons’
Spurs and Son end Millwall’s FA Cup run in emphatic fashion
Kane limps off as Tottenham reach semis after rout in final White Hart Lane cup tie
UDR slight to minister over dinner invite angered Northern Ireland secretary
State papers 1986: Event came after series of allegations about the regiment
Sir Robert Armstrong: ‘Nothing will ever be the same again in NI’
State papers 1986: UK secretary said Anglo-Irish Agreement resulted in ‘fundamental change’
State papers 1986: Peter Robinson plotted an independent state
Northern Ireland’s former First Minister was ‘saying things about independence’
Thatcher was a chameleon on Ireland even after Anglo-Irish Agreement
State Papers 1986: the year after agreement was signed relations remained complex
Perception of ‘killing terror by kindness’ risked IRA threat
British papers: 1980s files reveal efforts to tackle west Belfast poverty and paramilitarism
Margaret Thatcher angered by Irish ‘inaction on terrorism’
Anglo-Irish Agreement appeared a ‘hollow sham’ after delay of IRA suspect extradition
‘Unstable’ Joe Kennedy’s 1988 challenge to British government
Officials cited ‘robust’ Washington speech before 1988 visit by Kennedy clan scion
Lenihan sought terrorism ‘crack down’ after Enniskillen bombing
Declassified 1987 files detail Anglo-Irish security meeting after bombing which killed 11
Dick Spring said he would not accept not done enough on security
Comments followed call by Northern secretary Tom King for better co-operation on security between the two jurisdictions
State Papers: Tortuous road to Anglo-Irish Agreement
Thatcher had concerns, feared unionist reaction, but officials and FitzGerald pressed on
State Papers: INLA described by Catholic priests as ‘bunch of lunatics’
Former SDLP leader John Hume compared UDR to ‘a group of Rangers supporters’
State Papers: ‘What would you do if Dundalk were bombed?’
State Papers 1985: Taoiseach’s view sought just weeks after Anglo-Irish Agreement
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