Princeton University will keep President Woodrow Wilson’s name on campus buildings despite student complaints about racism, with officials saying that “contextualisation is imperative” to the Ivy League school’s history.

 

UCC historian Dr John Borgonovo recalls the response to the sinking of the Lusitania in his native US, which took another two years to enter the Great War

While the words on the banner hung in front of Liberty Hall (‘We serve neither King nor Kaiser but Ireland’) still resonate a century on, representing the values of a patriotic anti-imperialist neutrality, they mask an historical reality that was a good deal more complex than is generally allowed (Letters, July 4).

DURING the “Red Scare” that swept the US in the wake of Russia’s 1917 Bolshevik revolution, the justice department launched a cycle of raids against radicals and leftists.

Fatal Path: British Government and Irish Revolution 1910-1922

WITH Northern Ireland now being jolted by a couple of sex scandals, maybe we should ask why our politics have remained strangely free of such scandals? The whole thing undoubtedly has a lot to do with hypocrisy.

A “HUMBLED” US President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize yesterday in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and co-operation rather than unilateralism.

By Ryle Dwyer