Italia 90 Revisited: There’s one thing nobody can fudge about Jack Charlton

Thirty years ago team spirit was one thing Jack Charlton's squad had in spades

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Let’s have a competition for a new national anthem

Militaristic, nationalistic language of Amhrán na bhFiann will have to go

Seamus Mallon and John Hume were the two big beasts of the SDLP

Behind the spats was vital alliance of two of biggest men of modern non-violent nationalism

The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland Troubles: A seminal book

Book review: Margaret Scull looks at the church’s role in the Troubles over 30 years

Moyna Transgression – Frank McNally on the Seamus Mallon memoirs and hitchhiking in the 1980s

Seamus Mallon warns against premature Border poll

Vote could deliver ‘unworkable majority for unity’, says former NI deputy first minister

Seamus Mallon: Irish unity by numbers won’t work

Premature Border Poll may deliver narrow, unworkable majority for unity

Irish Pages: words for a time when hope and history no longer rhyme

The current edition of Northern Ireland’s literary journal marks 20 years of the Belfast Agreement – and the overriding mood is one of disillusionment and despair

Filming Dolours Price: ‘Her name is Latin for sorrow. That describes her life’

Journalist Ed Moloney on his interview with the compelling, acidic late IRA woman

‘Civic unionism’ group issues riposte to ‘civic nationalism’

Signatories motivated by desire to build a better society in Northern Ireland

In a Word. . . Gender

Diarmaid Ferriter: a history of partition and Europe’s role

The British establishment lacked consistency while the Free State washed its hands

Anti-Catholic bigotry of many in DUP still significant

‘I wonder how many Northern unionists still hold appalling, near-racist views’

Andy Pollak: Good culture has the power to overcome bad politics

As the 1916 centenary dawns, we should focus on what unites us all, not what divides us