Category: Independent Ireland

on the issue of Irish Independence

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Brexit And Northern Ireland

Editorial, Irish Political Review, March 18 The strange British device called Northern Ireland was based on an antagonism of two stable populations with fixed ideas, which we described fifty years ago as two nations. One of those populations ruled the other in local Six County affairs then, while the basic services of state were laid […]

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Brexit and the war of the worlds

Editorial from The Irish Political Review December 2018: The 26 County Government says it will not tolerate the restoration of a Border between the part of the island which it governs and the Six Counties in the North which are part of the British state. It means that it will not tolerate a Customs barrier. […]

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‘Northern Ireland’ and Democracy

Editorial from Irish Political Review November 2017: Brexit seems to be going ahead, but there is no Northern Ireland Government to tend to Northern Ireland interests in the process of it. The two Governments are worried by this and they are urging Northern Ireland to get a Government so that it can tend to the […]

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The Reformation

‘The Reformation In Ireland’ is the editorial in Church and State Autumn 2017: On the 500th anniversary of Luther’s attack on mainstream European Christianity, the Irish Times asked: “at the risk of being parochial…: why did the Reformation fail in Ireland?” There is of course no risk of the Irish Times becoming parochial—not Irish parochial at […]

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The End Of An Era?

Irish Political Review Editorial October 2017 Northern Ireland is without a Government at the moment. It has been without a Government since before the last British General Election. Or, to put it another way, the Northern Ireland region of the British state is being governed by the Government of the state and that is not […]