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Bobby Sands
To find the real Nell McCafferty, look to her writing
Her sentences, when she found the perfect one, possess both weight and lightness
The Routledge Handbook of the Northern Ireland Conflict and Peace: Humanising our understanding of the Troubles
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Chris Fitzpatrick: There is a part of us that is forever England
An ardent nationalist writes that admitting who we truly are might help us find common ground to overcome political conflict
Star turns: The brilliant Belfast boys who defied the sectarian tide
The Star of the Sea were a tight group of young lads before the Troubles tore them apart
Newton Emerson: Feature of northern nationalists is rejection of 'violent struggle' during Troubles
From 1969 to 1981, there is no ballot box proof of nationalist sympathy for violence
Adams gets apology from Sunday World as defamation case is settled
Article claimed Former Sinn Féin president had met a former Provisional IRA member
IRA ‘were no criminals’, former Sinn Féin TD tells commemoration
Last IRA member killed during Troubles ‘continues to inspire us’, Martin Ferris says
Enda Walsh and Donnacha Dennehy come full circle with final offering in operatic trilogy
Dublin Fringe Festival 2021: The playwright and composer join forces once more on ‘suburban horror’, The First Child
Fighting Words – Frank McNally on the best and worst songs of the Northern Troubles
An Irishman’s Diary
Mary Lou McDonald: ‘Our family wasn’t broken . . . in fact it was very complete’
Sinn Féin leader on family, privilege and a rapid ascent in politics after a late start
‘Little friendly Dr Ross’: The forgotten hunger strike victim
Doctor who oversaw the care of republican prisoners during the Troubles later died by suicide
‘Adams and McGuinness betrayed everyone’: A former IRA prisoner reflects on Troubles
Thomas Elliott believes futile campaign of violence should have been halted in 1987
H-Block letters: Finder clarifies background to their discovery
Richard Behal ‘regrets’ inference that communications were being ‘dumped’ by party
Faithfull Friend – on the late Paddy Rossmore, a reluctant celebrity who revolutionised drug treatment in Ireland
An Irishman’s Diary
Letters from the H-blocks: tiny notes from Bobby Sands and Gerry Adams found
Some of the letters give insights into prisoners’ thinking as hunger strikes loomed
How the GAA wove its way through the black summer of 1981
Association had to tread lightly through volatile situation in which members were involved
Why is the Italian right obsessed with Bobby Sands?
First-time visitors to the Bogside Pub in Florence might recognise some of the images on display
The legacy of bitterness caused by the 1981 hunger strikes continues
For northern nationalists, Bobby Sands’s election in 1981 transformed politics
What Bobby Sands means to me: ‘The hunger strikers chose to die. Daddy didn’t’
Forty years after Sands’s election as an MP and death by hunger strike, what is his legacy?
Bruised but unbowed Bellaghy emerge from a tragic history
All-Ireland club champions in 1972, Derry club suffered dark days during Troubles
Michael McKevitt ‘escaped justice’ for Omagh bombing – victim’s father
Former Real IRA leader was one of four men found liable for 1998 atrocity in civil case
The history wars: A new battleground in Irish politics
Is Brian Stanley’s tweet part of a concerted Sinn Féin effort to rewrite the Troubles?
The three funerals of Terence MacSwiney
The events, each with thousands of mourners, were key moments in the battle for independence
The 50 best Irish films ever made, in order
Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises
Airbnb-style short-term rentals to be refused applications in Dublin
City houses previously approved for holiday rental banned from short-term use
Firm behind luxury Dublin rentals to appeal short-term let ban
City council refused permission for five houses valued at over €1m each
Transcript of speakers at ‘up the Ra’ Sinn Féin event: ‘We broke the Free State’
David Cullinane apologises for comment in victory speech: ‘I don’t set out to offend anybody’
Sinn Féin’s David Cullinane defends shouting ‘Up the ‘Ra’ after election
Mary Lou McDonald urges TDs not to make comments that distract from party’s agenda
Falling demand for IRA merchandise threatens SF firm
Republican Merchandising Ltd accumulated losses and laid off its three staff last year
Children of the Troubles: They took a child off the road, put a hood over his head and killed him
186 children died during the Troubles. Joe Duffy and Freya McClements tell some of their stories
James McClean: FA and Kick It Out are a bunch of cowards
Ireland winger calls hypocrisy on how he has been treated compared with Raheem Sterling
Alliance leader Naomi Long upbeat on non-sectarian centre
Gains made in local elections suggest breakthrough, says East Belfast MEP candidate
James McClean reveals vile abuse sent to him in birthday card
Republic of Ireland international has been a regular target of abuse during his career
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