Public Affairs
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‘Players and crap-hats’
The deployment of militarily aggressive British Army units to Northern Ireland – bristling with experience of colonial counter-insurgency tours in…
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Donations and public funds
Over £250,000 in donations and public funds were accepted by Northern Ireland’s main political parties in the first quarter of…
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Party conferences
Media focus at Sinn Féin’s 2018 Ard Fheis was primarily concerned with two key junctures: the first was the party’s…
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Ulster Protestant identities
Unionism has come under renewed scrutiny amid the Tory-DUP confidence and supply arrangement. However, in the face of simplistic interpretations,…
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Rekindle the Good Friday Agreement ‘spirit’
On his first visit to Northern Ireland as leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn outlined his desire to see…
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The authority to speak
Following the first public lecture organised by An Roinn Ghaeilge agus Léann Cheilteach/the Department of Irish and Celtic Studies in…
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Political Platform
Órfhlaith Begley is Northern Ireland’s most recently elected MP after winning the West Tyrone by-election with a majority of over…
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Animated: Brian John Spencer
Artist, writer and political cartoonist Brian John Spencer discusses his early career with David Whelan, finding his muse and dealing…
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Northern Ireland: ‘a cold house’ for LGBT couples
County Armagh native and Labour MP for St Helens (Merseyside) Conor McGinn has introduced a Private Members’ Bill at Westminster…
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Women and politics in Ireland since 1918
February 2018 marked the centenary of some women achieving the right to vote in parliamentary elections in Britain and Ireland.…
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