In times of crisis, unionism still reverts to the Lundy principle and the predictable rhetoric it entails. In the siege of Derry in 1688 the Cathol...

In a conversation last year between China’s President Xi and President Biden, the Chinese leader commented that democratic systems of government ar...

Most historians agree that two Revolutions at the end of the 18th century ushered in the modern era. The Americans sent the British home and put th...

Monaghan and Derry had nearly all the support of unconnected football followers in their recent semi-final clashes with Dublin and Kerry. Outsiders...

The Berkeley Library in Trinity College Dublin was built in the late 1960s and in 1978 it was named after one of its famous graduates, George Berke...

Reading the 44-page indictment document prepared by Special Prosecutor, Jack Smith, one question kept recurring to me: what was Donald Trump thinki...

In a recent article in the Daily Beast titled “The Left needs a Spiritual Renaissance. So Does America,” Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut and ...

A hundred years ago the economy in Belfast and its hinterland was booming led by shipbuilding and the burgeoning linen industry. With help from the...

Liam Lynch was killed by the Free State army in the Knockmealdown Mountains in Tipperary on April 10th a hundred years and one month ago. Lynch, a ...

About seven years ago, my wife and I participated in a Mass in San Antonio, Texas, where the main celebrant was a woman. We were part of about thre...

"An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick" From William Butler Yeats’s poem "Sailing to Byzantium." I recall well an unlikel...

The census figures for Northern Ireland released last September show Catholics, broadly understood, at 45.7%, and Protestants, or people brought up...