The man who would become Northern Ireland’s key reformist Prime Minister repeatedly expressed alarm at a plan to buil...
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Tony Blair put intense pressure on his Attorney General to drop criminal proceedings against a leading Sinn Féin memb...
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Nothing about the British government’s Legacy Act proved as unifying as its demise.
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I can still remember the frequency: 198 kHz longwave. Lying in bed late at night, Radio 4’s crackly signal came from ...
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Twelve days after Sir Patrick Mayhew’s appointment as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, he sent a ‘secret and ...
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Can you ever see the day when Sinn Féin MPs will take their seats in the House of Commons? For years, the party has w...
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A fortnight ago, I was on my way to play football in a Belfast leisure centre where I’ve played for 15 years when som...
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Prominent Belfast filmmaker Sean Murray has refused to say if he is getting money from Iran as he dodged questions on...
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A senior Sinn Féin figure has admitted that she knew before attending veteran republican Bobby Storey's funeral that ...
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To what extent should academics work with government to unearth the secrets of the past? The question is at the heart...
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A secret Army paper in 1984 expressed concern the RUC might get more involved in “the mucky end” of intelligence-gath...
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Imagine you are driving down a dark country road on a winter evening when you are stopped by armed men blocking the r...
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Ever since the IRA’s historic decommissioning of weapons, the process which saw arms destroyed has been clothed in ac...
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The largest single payment to an informant in Northern Ireland during the first 13 years of the Troubles was £15,000 ...
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The US managing director of the newly-opened McConnell’s Distillery and Visitor Experience at Crumlin Road Gaol has s...
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Sinn Féin pressed to get on the run Provo Kevin McGuigan back into Northern Ireland in 2000 — 15 years before the IRA...
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Long before the government legislated to give an amnesty for all Troubles crimes, its own files show it had been warn...
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Despite his hardline public stance, Jeffrey Donaldson privately said if the IRA allowed its arms dumps to be inspecte...
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The south Armagh watchtowers had a function which was so secretive that British security agencies did not even tell A...
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The reform of policing was more damaging to the UUP than the lack of IRA decommissioning, the UUP told the Government.
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Two months after the first IRA ceasefire in 1994, Britain’s top intelligence unit had evidence the Provos needed mone...
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The IRA leader in charge of decommissioning was secretly in America under an illegal name looking to import new guns ...
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An astonishing story involving the CIA, Mossad, and the disappearance of a compromising film for half a century raise...
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The conventional reading of post-partition Irish history emphasises the significance of certain key moments: Bunreach...
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Were Saint Patrick to come to Ireland today, he’d be nowhere near as welcome as the festivities in his name suggest. ...
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It’s a cross-border train link that began two years after the Second World War and whose health has been a crude baro...
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Gerry Kelly is continuing with a libel action against a critic of Sinn Féin, despite a similar case being thrown out ...
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Gerry Kelly has accepted a devastating judgment which leaves him liable for a huge legal bill over what a judge said ...
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Law lecturer Edgar Graham was gunned down by the IRA in broad daylight at Queen’s University on December 7, 1983. Sam...
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A week ago yesterday I found myself standing at a door just north of Dublin in the hope that I’d be able to ask a 74-...
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The man who was beside Edgar Graham when he was murdered 40 years ago today — standing so close to him that he was co...
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Edgar Graham was just 29 years old when the IRA gunned him down on the street at Queen’s University in south Belfast.
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Myths can be born in an instant but persist for millennia. How the Troubles started and how they escalated is the sub...
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Steve Baker is not the first person to suggest that it would be better if Irish unity maybe should require a supermaj...
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A victims campaigner has hailed the “extraordinary people” who died in the Shankill Road bombing as a memorial servic...
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The elderly mother of an 11-year-old boy who mysteriously vanished along with his friend on their way to school in no...
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A plan to move the PSNI’s most elite officers to RAF Aldergrove has led to internal disquiet amid concerns that the l...
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The New IRA could have made four deadly booby-trap car bombs out of explosives it stashed, ready to be moved, in Derry.
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Lurching along with some sort of collective leadership while bureaucrats insist everything is fine, the PSNI now rese...
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