Roy Foster: Irish reunification 'is nearer than I would have thought it a couple of decades ago' – The Irish Times

The historian discusses an array of subjects, including the damage wrought by Brexit, comparing WB Yeats and Seamus Heaney, and why ‘the whole revisionism thing is over’

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