Bordering on confusion: Why we mustn't forget history and our conflicting identities

By providing a benign shelter for conflicting identities, the European Union helped end the Troubles in the North. To forget this is to risk a return to the past. ‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it’ is a warning from history that should not be forgotten, says Roisin McAuley.

Growing up Catholic in the North, I had no doubt that I was Irish. I have an Irish name. An early memory is learning to write my full name as Gaeilge.