Seamus Mallon
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Threat of loyalist violence ‘not an argument’ against united Ireland
- Irish News
- October 29, 2019, 01:00
A threat of violence must not be an argument against any future referendum on a united Ireland being decided by a simple majority vote, even if it is (...)

Children of the Troubles: They took a child off the road, put a hood over his head and killed him
- Books
- October 5, 2019, 06:00
Patrick Rooney loved horror movies and Halloween, and wanted to be a priest when he grew up. In August 1969, the nine-year-old was killed when the RUC(...)

The Irish Times view on child victims of the Troubles: never again
- Editorial
- October 5, 2019, 00:02
The horror and pointlessness of the violence which disfigured Northern Ireland for so long is captured vividly in a new book, Children of the Troubles(...)

What elements of Britishness would be incorporated into a united Ireland?
- Opinion
- September 6, 2019, 01:12
It can be debated whether it is helpful to be talking now about a future united Ireland. However, when such a central figure in Ulster unionism as Pe(...)

Daniel O’Connell, the greatest of all politicians
- Heritage
- August 17, 2019, 06:00
I remember coming home from primary school after a lesson on Daniel O’Connell and his monster political meetings. We were told that when the British a(...)

Fifty years on, Northern Ireland is unsettled once more
- Irish News
- August 17, 2019, 01:00
Fifty years ago Northern Ireland was facing into an uncertain future with no notion of the horror ahead. Today there is no doubt the North is facing i(...)

Noel Whelan: New plan for Border poll would see agreement ripped up
- Opinion
- May 24, 2019, 01:00
Last weekend former deputy SDLP leader Seamus Mallon made an important intervention in the debate about whether and how a united Ireland could be achi(...)

Moyna Transgression – Frank McNally on the Seamus Mallon memoirs and hitchhiking in the 1980s
- Opinion
- May 23, 2019, 18:01
Reading Seamus Mallon’s new memoir, A Shared Home Place, has transported me back to my short but educational career as a hitchhiker during the mid-198(...)

Last Stories by William Trevor is this week’s Irish Times Eason book offer
- Books
- May 23, 2019, 16:00
This weekend’s Eason book offer when you purchase a copy of The Irish Times is €7 off the cover price of Last Stories by William Trevor, now just €4.9(...)

Seamus Mallon: Tony Blair said to me, ‘The trouble with you fellows is you have no guns’
- Books
- May 18, 2019, 00:00
One of Northern Ireland’s most prominent nationalist politicians, Seamus Mallon was at the heart of the Social Democratic and Labour Party for three d(...)