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image captionEdwin Poots was elected DUP leader by 19 votes to 17, beating MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson
Edwin Poots has been elected leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), beating MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson by 19 votes to 17.
MLA Paula Bradley has been elected as the party s deputy leader, beating MP Gregory Campbell.
They are now set to lead the DUP into next years election for the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Other political stakeholders from across the UK and Ireland have been reacting to their victory.
Boris Johnson tweeted his congratulations to the newly elected DUP leader.
The prime minister said people across the UK are best served when we work together and that he looked forward to working with Mr Poots .
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Book review: The thread of neutrality between US and Irish diplomats in the 1930s
The author, Bernadette Whelan, is professor emeritus in history at the University of Limerick, and no stranger to Irish foreign policy
Éamon de Valera making a radio broadcast to America as part of the ‘Salute Of The Nations’ programme on January 9, 1939. Picture: Keystone/Getty Images
Sat, 27 Feb, 2021 - 20:00
Review: Frank MacGabhann
Bernadette Whelan
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AT first glance Éamon de Valera and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) make odd bedfellows in the title of a book. However, during the time period concerned, the 1930s, there is a thread connecting them, but a thread that will become so threadbare that it will eventually all but snap. That thread is neutrality. In de Valera s eyes, it was a principle, especially once he realised that collective security under the League of Nations was no more than an empty phrase once Mussolini s Italy invaded Abyssinia in 1935 with impunity. In FDR
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