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From ‘handshake prevention’ to bringing about ceasefires, Chris Maccabe has done his fair share to take the gun out of Irish politics
October 25 1973 Vanguard leader Mr William Craig yesterday urged Unionists to unite to defeat Westminster’s plans for the future of Northern Ireland… Mr Craig, in rejecting the constitutional plans with its power-sharing aspects in particular, told the Assembly there was a great yearning for peace but not the peace of suicide.
He went on to serve as First Minister in the power-sharing Executive alongside Sinn Fein
Adam Fusco examines the idea of Northern Ireland independence in Unionist political thought. He argues that rather than being the expression of Ulster
A hundred years of trouble: How an outburst of violence exposed Northern Ireland as a failed state On the 100th anniversary of the divided state they created, the Ulster unionists, far from celebrating, are in thrall to a sense of doom. Will the constitutional experiment soon be over? The scenes of the recent violence in Belfast were like a rerun of images from the darkest days of the Troubles. A sense of inflammatory discord hung in the air as the police came under sustained attack, youths hurled petrol bombs and a double-decker bus was set alight. The escalating mood of conflict, given ...