Excerpts and summaries of news stories from the former Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster New Era and Sunday News that focus on the events in the county’s past that are noteworthy, newsworthy
Kieran Allen’s latest book, 32 Counties: The Failure of Partition and the Case for a United Ireland, is a valuable polemical addition to the debates surrounding Ireland, Brexit, the prospect of a “Border Poll”, and Irish unification.
It is most useful as a crisp historical account of partition and its political effects but less convincing as a justification for Allen’s current political perspectives.
A history of the mutiny of 70% of the Belfast police force during a dockers' strike which brought together Catholic and Protestant workers in struggle.