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London’s National Theatre is reviving Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa. Breandán Mac Suibhne recovers the lives of the actual women on whom the characters are based
Ties That Bind? Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Union, by Graham Walker and James Greer (Irish Academic Press, £17.99) ENGLISH imperialism has had a remarkable run. Initially by force of arms and then by force of its will, it managed to subjugate half the world. In so doing, a tiny country on a small island transformed itself into a Great Power. Its earliest major conquests were its immediate neighbours: Wales, Scotland and Ireland. These nations, with their own languages and cultures, were gradually, and violently, incorporated into an entity the English parliament came to regard as “...
ANDREW NEIL: Rishi Sunak's new deal with the European Union over Northern Ireland is a remarkable watershed in more ways than one - with implications far beyond the Six Counties.
It was a week of mixed emotions for John Arnold, he explains why in his weekly column
With London and Brussels about to ink a reconfigured Brexit deal, there's no better time for the majority in the North of Ireland who wish to see p...