There can be little doubt as to the public mood about politics in Northern Ireland. It ranges from apathy through annoyance to anger.
Anti-politics can be cheap and cynical. But
A new history of the Workers' Party inspires Robin Wilson to reflect on a movement that helped to change the face of modern Ireland
Northern Ireland has returned to the place its political and paramilitary elites have long believed to be its natural geographical location: the centre of the universe. Once again its bloodletting
Robin Wilson (Belfast, Policy Analyst): The suggestion that the various secretaries of state for the nations and regions should be wrapped up into one department has made sense ever since
Who killed Denis Donaldson, a figure who had moved in the space of three months from being a trusted, convivial adviser to Sinn Féin leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness
Stephen Howes excellent survey of Loyalism in Northern Ireland is exhaustive. Indeed, few of us who actually live here, exhausted by (literally) wall-to-wall sectarianism, would have had the energy
The Irish novelist John Banville once reviewed a book of short stories by Gerry Adams for the Irish Times. They contained, he wrote, the sentimentality of every totalitarian.
Gerry Adams
