English domination hangs over this crime novel like a spectre
A WEIRD tension arises when “great novelists” experiment with genre fiction. Critics mostly split into two factions. First, those who sneer ...
Cycling Weekly on MSN5h
Northern Ireland's scenery is too awe-inspiring to be contained by any single myth or deity - there’s space and time for them all - especially when travelling by bike
Paying homage to a travel writing pioneer, David Bradford rides the coastline of Northern Ireland in the wheel tracks of ...
Three main parties in tight race, according to Irish General Election exit poll - with Sinn Fein and Fine Gael neck and neck
Fine Gael (21%) and Fianna Fail (19.5%) are virtually neck-and-neck in terms of first preference votes in the Irish General ...
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Boxer who says Commonwealth Games snub was based on religion gets settlement
A young boxer who took legal proceedings alleging that he was not selected to represent Northern Ireland at the last ...
American Songwriter1d
“She Just Had Me on the Grill There”: Why Joni Mitchell Was Cornered in a Bar Over This Tragic Song
Joni Mitchell was once cornered in a bar by a perturbed Irish woman over her tragic song, "The Magdalene Laundries." ...
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Me, Myself & Ireland: ‘I think begrudgery is knitted into the fabric of our being and it comes from a place of lack’
Designer Helen James on returning to Dublin from New York, the ‘gentler, lovelier pace’ here, and the traditions of Christmas ...
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Editorial: The Ulster Flag must not be changed for Northern Ireland athletes in the Commonwealth Games
In today’s News Letter we interview Conal Heatley, chief executive of Commonwealth Games Northern Ireland. He wants to change ...
Nigel Hamilton's 6 inspirational books for fellow writers
Nigel Hamilton 's new book, " Lincoln vs. Davis ," is a study of its subjects as rival Civil War commanders. Below, the ...
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The unsettling of America continues
King Henry VIII, the English monarch who broke from the Roman Catholic Church and created the Protestant Church of England, forcefully occupied Ireland in the mid-16th century, confiscated the estates ...
The Irish Echo4d
Birmingham Bombing Victims Remembered Fifty Years On
Statement by President Higgins on the 50th Anniversary of the Birmingham Bombings The fiftieth anniversary of the Birmingham ...
Analysis-Sinn Fein struggles deal blow to nationalists' united Ireland dream
Sinn Fein's polling collapse from government-in-waiting to likely also-rans at an Irish election next week looks set to rob ...