Arlene s career as a juggler ends
Updated / Saturday, 1 May 2021
10:56
In his final piece of online analysis, former RTÉ News Northern Editor, Tommie Gorman, looks back on the career of outgoing First Minister, Arlene Foster, and asks what next for power sharing in Northern Ireland.
For much of her five and a half years as DUP leader, Arlene Foster has been waiting for the sky to fall.
When the end came, as so happens in politics, it was brutal.
A number of times in a past life she was one of the very few who sat up late with the then leader, Peter Robinson. One more heave was brewing in the DUP civil war between those who yearn for the past and those who worry about the future.
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On the third day of battling the flames, the major incident status was de-escalated at about lunchtime today.
Firefighters moved to working on extinguishing hotspots.
The case for rethinking Ireland and Empire
Updated / Monday, 19 Apr 2021
14:48 The very different experiences of Ireland as a partitioned island has greatly shaped how Irish history is written.
Analysis:
The different experiences of Ireland as a partitioned island has greatly shaped how Irish history is written, ensuring a tradition of history framed with a South/North division, or few explicit investigations of how British colonial policies shaped it.
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Recent months have seen a flurry of media coverage on the involvement of Irish people in overseas colonialism, ranging from the insightful, to the insipid and the incendiary. As scholars of Empire working on the margins of Irish history, we welcome the renewed focus, public and scholarly, on Ireland s imperial pasts.
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