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Category Archives: Sinn Fein
Nobody can deny that Michelle O’Neill’s elevation was an historic moment
Nobody can deny that the installation of Michelle O’Neill as the first nationalist First Minister of Northern Ireland last Saturday was an historic moment. For a statelet that was set up over a century ago specifically to ensure that NI … Continue reading
Posted in General, Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein
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A glimpse into the strange, secretive party that stands on the brink of power in Ireland
Over the Christmas holidays I read The Long Game: Inside Sinn Fein, by the former Irish Examiner journalist Aoife Moore. I was looking forward to reading this book enormously, since good books on this “strange, secretive party that stands on … Continue reading
Posted in General, Sinn Fein
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The IRA’s Christmas present to the Niedermayer family: the murder of their father
Earlier this month I saw ‘Face Down’, a powerful and heartbreaking documentary by the Dublin film-maker Gerry Gregg about the IRA’s 1973 murder of Thomas Niedermayer, the German manager of an electronics factory on the edge of west Belfast. The … Continue reading
Posted in General, Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein
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Are we afraid of talking about Ireland’s violent past and possibly violent future?
This is a blog about letters to the newspapers. I know it’s dangerous to generalise from the particular, and especially the particular of one’s own tiny experience. But I can’t help seeing a pattern in recent rejections of my letters … Continue reading
Posted in General, Irish reunification, Sinn Fein
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Is this columnist’s frightening republican vision shared by young Irish people?
Una Mullally is a high profile Irish Times columnist: a gay left-wing feminist (although I have never seen or heard her describe herself as a socialist) who is particularly popular among the young. This is not surprising given that one … Continue reading
Posted in General, Sinn Fein
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Is Ireland’s Future effectively a front for Sinn Fein? Or is that the wrong question?
I was at the big Ireland’s Future ‘Preparing for a United Ireland:Together we can’ event at Dublin’s 3 Arena earlier this month. There was very little ‘preparing’ in the proceedings – it was more like a ‘Forward to the Promised … Continue reading
Posted in General, Irish reunification, Sinn Fein
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Sinn Fein are winning the peace, as people forget the IRA’s war
Sinn Fein are winning the post-1998 peace. They are now the largest party in Northern Ireland, and almost certainly will be the largest party in the Republic after the next election. A combination of internal and external events have come … Continue reading
Posted in General, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Sinn Fein
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Mary Lou McDonald and the forgotten people of the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’
The title of this blog, ‘Two Irelands Together’, was not chosen by accident. My core contention in writing this column is that for more than 400 years there have been two clashing politico-religious cultures on this island – Catholic nationalist … Continue reading
Posted in General, Irish reunification, Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein
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Sinn Fein will be re-writing recent Irish history when it gets into power
Earlier this month Mary Lou McDonald denied that the deletion of thousands of Sinn Fein press statements going back over 20 years represented an attempt to cover-up the party’s ‘soft’ position on Russia in the wake of its invasion of … Continue reading
Posted in General, Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein
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Majority of Southern voters think united Ireland “not very important” but they would like to see it “some day”
That is the headline I would like to have seen on the Irish Times front page lead story on 11th December about the paper’s latest opinion poll on unity and other issues. Its editors went instead for the much more … Continue reading