Six Counties News Today

With wintry precipitation keeping many people off the roads last Wednesday, Central Montanans had the chance to take a figurative trip across the state as the Lewistown Public Library hosted

In what is almost certainly a general election year, Jack Conrad looks at the evolution, limits and possibilities of parliament. We don’t have to settle for Sir Keir’s Labour Party and the lesser evil

It is my pleasure to announce that the Lewistown Public Library’s 9th Annual Author Dinner will feature Russell Rowland, a fourth-generation Montanan and teacher whose works include “In Open Spaces”

On his show "The State of Montana," Russell Rowland has interviewed folks like Dorothy Bradley, Ryan Busse and Marc Racicot.

There are two distinct peoples in Ireland, who see and define themselves differently and antagonistically, the Catholic “Irish-Irish” Nationalists and the Protestant “British-Irish” Unionists. Ireland, which had been ruled by England since the 12th century, was partitioned in 1920-21 into Six and 26 Counties entities. The border dividing the Six and 26 Counties does not coincide, or even approximate to, the geographical location of the two distinct Irish peoples/ identities. It cuts righ...

Chris Gray reviews Robbie McVeigh and Bill Rolston Ireland, colonialism and the unfinished revolution Chicago 2023, pp480, £19.99

There are two distinct peoples in Ireland, who see and define themselves differently and antagonistically, the Catholic “Irish-Irish” Nationalists and the Protestant “British-Irish” Unionists. Ireland, which had been ruled by England since the 12th century, was partitioned in 1920-21 into Six and 26 Counties entities. The border dividing the Six and 26 Counties does not coincide, or even approximate to, the geographical location of the two distinct Irish peoples/ identities. It cuts righ...

Northern Ireland has been waiting for this. Waiting not just for the two years since the last Assembly election, but waiting since its very foundat...

January 18 saw the public transport network brought to a halt. Schools and further education colleges were closed. Health trusts reduced their service to “life and limb” only emergencies.

IN JANUARY 1994, the armed conflict in the Six Counties was at a critical stage. The previous year had seen the deaths of 84 people in the war and, while there was some political movement, it was b...