Is the Irish government making plans to commemorate the creation of partition in 1921? That could be the inference of a speech by Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan at the Fine Gael national conference ...

This week marks 100 years since the Government of Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain divided Ireland into two self-governing polities. Stephen O’Neill’s Irish Culture and Partition ...

Any discussion involving an objective assessment of our historical past is rendered difficult for a number of different reasons which are linked to each other. Partition and neutrality are ...

Partition “broke apart a single, more diverse society” and was designed to be “intractable” because it created two states dominated by majority interests in the decades afterwards, Taoiseach Micheál ...

The Irish state’s decade-plus-long programme commemorating the Irish revolutionary years has come to an end, the finishing point to the decade being 1923, the year the Irish Civil War ended and the ...

Westminster, 16 August 1916 - Members of the Irish Parliamentary Party have expressed delight that proposals to partition Ireland have been abandoned. The proposals emanated from negotiations ...

James Joyce’s reputation in some circles for shunning the ordinary reader, and for producing incomprehensible fiction from a modernist ivory tower, is somewhat unfair. In fact, he showed an avid ...

London, 10 June 1916 - Groups from around Ireland have condemned the proposal to temporarily exclude six Ulster counties from the new Home Rule settlement. Originally suggested in 1912, the ...