The callous disregard that Boris Johnson shows for Northern Ireland is scandalous
The Good Friday Agreement is in peril.
ByGood Friday Agreement
The return of the Irish question
Despite tensions between London and Dublin over Brexit and the murder of Lyra McKee, the Good Friday Agreement is strong…
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Brexiteers take European peace for granted
As the memory of the Second World War grows more distant, we must not be fooled into thinking that future…
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Brexit has forced the UK to finally reckon with Ireland as a sovereign nation
In February 2016, before Brexit became a reality, Boris Johnson made a flying visit to Northern Ireland as London Mayor…
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“They can have peace, or justice, but not both:” the Northern Irish families still awaiting answers
Pat Finucane was murdered in his kitchen 30 years ago by paramilitaries under the watch of the British state. His…
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How Britain’s dark history with Ireland haunts Brexit
Britain may have forgotten the past, but across the Irish Sea, the troubled relationship – from the Great Famine to the…
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The stains of Bloody Sunday
In January 1972 on the streets of Londonderry British paratroopers shot 14 unarmed civilians dead. Now a reckoning is finally…
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A united Ireland now looks like an increasing possibility
Unity was once the “solution that dare not speak its name,” but when it comes to a desire to remain within…
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How the Brexit battle over the Irish border throws the peace process into jeopardy
It is corroding the consensual power-sharing paradigm engendered in Northern Ireland by the Good Friday Agreement.
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“All the promise of Northern Ireland’s post-conflict generation”: a tribute to Lyra McKee
At the age of just 29, Lyra McKee was an accomplished and respected investigative journalist. Her reporting tackled the difficult…
ByUlster: is peace now worse than war?
The hope exists. Unionism has won some points, too.
ByPeace crawls through a moral swamp
John Lloyd reveals that, despite the Good Friday Agreement, violence is rising in Ulster as the para
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