Walter Long

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Former British cabinet minister Michael Portillo. File photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times
Michael Portillo: ‘Ignorance of Ireland among the British is rather shocking’

Last year while filming his new documentary about the War of Independence, former British defence secretary Michael Portillo found himself alone at th(...)

A former customs hut in Ravensdale, Co Louth, on the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland. Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images
Cormac Moore: A century of partition

The changes in Anglo-Irish relations from the introduction of the third Home Rule Bill in 1912 to the introduction of the fourth Home Rule Bill or Gov(...)

A post man by the Border. Photograph by Terence Spencer/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images
The history of the Irish Border: From Plantation to Brexit

The increasing threat of a hard Brexit means we could shortly see a return to a hard Border in Ireland. Here, we look back at how Northern Ireland (...)

French president Georges Clemenceau, US president Woodrow Wilson and British prime minister David Lloyd-George at the Paris Peace Conference
Home rule goes from British suspension to Sinn Féin disfavour

In the British general election campaign of December 1918 slogans such as “Hang the Kaiser”, “squeeze the lemon till the pips squeak”, “homes fit for (...)

Leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party John Redmond (left) with John Dillon, who succeeded him as leader, circa 1910. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Sinn Féin and the conscription crisis

In January 1918, the Daily Mail referred to the “increasing weakness” of Sinn Féin – a reminder that as far as some contemporary observers were concer(...)

John Redmond, like Adams looked for “interim and transitional” arrangements leading to a united Ireland.
Gerry Adams has more in common with John Redmond than he might think

Politics goes in circles. One hundred years ago this summer John Redmond, Edward Carson and their colleagues played out the final denouement in the Ho(...)

Front page of ‘The Irish Times’ – Saturday, March 18th, 1916. A bargain at one penny!
St Patrick’s Day, 1916: Thousands take to streets in show of force

On St Patrick’s Day, 1916, thousands took to Irish streets in a demonstration of force by the Irish Volunteers. Just over a month later, many would be(...)