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Macabre exhumation of Roger Casement’s remains documented
- Irish News
- November 23, 2020, 01:50
The macabre exhumation of the remains of Roger Casement in Pentonville Prison in London in 1965 is recounted in detail in the latest volume of documen(...)

Gerry Adams’s historic prison escape convictions overturned
- Irish News
- May 13, 2020, 10:14
Former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has welcomed a British Supreme Court ruling that that his convictions for attempting to escape from the Maze Pr(...)

Rishi Sunak’s rapid rise from banker to UK chancellor
- UK
- February 13, 2020, 19:55
The new British chancellor of the exchequer has arrived in No 11 via public school, Oxford and Goldman Sachs – not an unusual route to one of the high(...)

Brexit Day countdown: How we got here, the complete history
- UK
- January 29, 2020, 14:50
As the United Kingdom prepares to leave the European Union on Friday, here’s a look back at how we got there. January 1st, 1973: The United Kingdom, (...)

Patrick Freyne: The Crown is about a rich family who stay still
- Culture
- November 22, 2019, 05:00
The Crown is back on Netflix. The first two series covered our hero’s rise from a plucky underdog engaged in backstreet underground Queening contests (...)

Awright, Boris! The meaning of Boris Johnson’s walkabout video
- TV, Radio, Web
- November 14, 2019
Oh God, save us from UK prime ministers trying to be men or women of the people. Harold Wilson did this better than most. Although he smoked cigars i(...)

All Whites may be in the All Blacks’ shadow yet they have a proud history
- International
- November 12, 2019, 21:07
Last November when New Zealand visited Lansdowne Road to play an autumn rugby international the sold-out signs were up months in advance despite price(...)

David Mitchell: ‘The internet and the smartphone have been a disaster for civilisation’
- Books
- November 9, 2019, 05:00
David Mitchell has some strong opinions. “Sorry about going off on one about various things,” he says at the end of our interview. I don’t mind. It’s (...)

On this day 50 years ago: Cork residents offer to house Northern children at risk
- Politics
- August 16, 2019, 01:00
Belfast is deserted and extremely tense. Scenes of devastation are everywhere to be seen. Every conceivable object has been used to erect barricades. (...)

British troops, having been deployed in Belfast for the first time yesterday, are attracting criticism for being unable to prevent large-scale destruc(...)