the Troubles
I will miss my vote
I feel as if I first took part in a general election even before I was born. My father was…
City of contradictions
Before the Troubles hijacked its reputation, the city was renowned for its linen industry and great shipyards, responsible for an eighth of the global shipbuilding trade
Don’t prosecute Soldier F
Sometimes old grievances are best laid to rest. That was certainly the view of Tony Blair when his government issued…
Home and away
After Artemis Fowl and Murder on the Orient Express you may have had concerns about Kenneth Branagh ever helming a…
Sinn Fein’s troubling veneration of terrorists
Sinn Fein is not a normal party. It sometimes feels impolite to point it out in the era of the…
Aussie rules
The One Day In the Year is an Australian drama about the annual commemoration of the Gallipoli campaign in 1915.…
An 80th birthday party causes no end of trouble in Barney Norris’s latest novel
‘People live in the space between the realities of their lives and the hopes they have for them,’ muses the…
In time of Troubles
‘The Anglo-Irish, their tribe, are dying. . . . They will go without a struggle, unlamented,’ Christopher Bland, 76, declares…
A choice of first novels
The intensely lyrical Ghost Moth is set in Belfast in 1969, as the Troubles begin and when Katherine, housewife and…
