Organisation: Irish Party

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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FIRST THOUGHTS: Anti-imperialism of Parnell’s party

EXOTIC names of places like Kabul, Kandahar and Khartoum were on the lips of many Irish people not only during the past 20 years but also in the 1870s and 1880s.

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Book review: Irish Education, 1922-2007 Cherishing All The Children?

business

A battle of Cork’s separatists and constitutional nationalists

Dead and gone: Europe changing as rapidly now as it did in 1916

Bruton’s allegiance shows disdain for united Ireland

Shallowness of Patrick’s Day brings home to us our lack of identity

Kenny has closed the gates of ‘Janus’, but must watch his back

JANUARY, from Janus, the Roman double-faced god facing in opposite directions, is here.

Wed, 01 Jan, 2014

Kenny and Gilmore are waging a revolution. Has anyone noticed?

AN APOLOGY is owed to Enda Kenny and Eamon Gilmore.

Wed, 02 Oct, 2013

We need to learn lessons of Irish history and avoid ‘group think’

YESTERDAY marked the centenary of the introduction of the Third Home Rule Bill in the House of Commons at Westminster. We are beginning a decade of commemoration lasting until the centenary of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 2022.

Thu, 12 Apr, 2012

Fianna Fáil is at the edge of a cliff and in mortal danger

Fianna Fáil appears to be eroding from the inside. The party must change if it is to live to fight another day, writes Gerard Howlin

Fri, 02 Mar, 2012

Irish war dead being used cynically to attack Irish nationhood

THE former Fine Gael TD for Donegal North East, Paddy Harte OBE (Letters, February 8) appears to labour under the impression that Irishmen who fought for the British empire during the Great War have been ignored by the Irish state.

Mon, 01 Mar, 2010

Ireland was ‘betrayed’ before First World War ended

SEVERAL letters in favour of the Remembrance Day concert held in Cork City Hall on November 8 based their support for it on the understanding that the Irish Party supported the British government’s conduct of the war until it ended on November 11, 1918.

Mon, 17 Nov, 2008

Bid to smear Irish who fought in First World War

IN THEIR letters (October 20) on the upcoming commemoration in Cork of the Irish soldiers who died in the First World War, Jack Lane and Tom Cooper infer or suggest outright that any such event would be an endorsement of the post-war military operations of the British army and security forces, specifically the Black and Tans and the Auxiliaries.

Tue, 04 Nov, 2008

Founding fathers of ‘civic’ nationalism

I AGREE with the view expressed by Dr Gerald Morgan (‘Why Irish nationalism failed the stress test, Letters, March 1) that we must look further back from 1916 in order to appreciate fully the divisions that existed within Irish nationalism.

Mon, 07 Apr, 2008

Figures of hate and matters of fact

THE letter from Gerard Harrington regarding the RTÉ ‘Figure of Hate’ programme (November 17) has just been brought to my attention.

Mon, 26 Nov, 2007

‘Figure of Hate’ — the true origins of a controversial newspaper chief

IT seems the Hidden History TV series get its facts wrong, if some recent instalments are anything to go by.

Sat, 17 Nov, 2007

Where was morality in shooting dead of elderly woman?

IN his letter headlined ‘Religion had nothing to do with struggle for independence’ (Irish Examiner, July 31), Pádraig Ó Cuanacháin takes me to task for suggesting that the killing of Mrs Lindsay and the sparing of Fr Shinnick was a sectarian response to their roles in trying to avert the Dripsey ambush in Co Cork and going to their relevant ‘sides’ in order to so do.

Mon, 14 Aug, 2006