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How the fate of border nationalists was sealed 100 years ago

05.03.2025 10

The Irish News

Cormac Moore

Is it time for Ireland to forego tradition and spurn bully Donald Trump on St Patrick’s Day?

20.02.2025 10

The Irish News

Cormac Moore

Tricolours, the Triple Crown and a terrible tragedy

06.02.2025 10

The Irish News

Cormac Moore

As long as a border exists, so will barriers to true all-island tourism

23.01.2025 10

The Irish News

Cormac Moore

Cormac Moore: Hitler, Lord Londonderry and the warnings from history as we face an unshackled Trump

09.01.2025 10

The Irish News

Cormac Moore

Fear and foreboding: When the Boundary Commission came to Ireland

100 years ago, in December 1924, the newly-established Boundary Commission undertook a preliminary visit to Ireland “for the purpose of seeing...

11.12.2024 4

The Irish News

Cormac Moore

Cormac Moore: Fear tactics didn’t work against de Valera and are unlikely to work against Sinn Féin today

Ever since Sinn Féin has been seen as a prospect to form a government in the 26 counties, comparisons have been made with Fianna Fáil in the 1932...

28.11.2024 5

The Irish News

Cormac Moore

50 years on from the Birmingham bombings, remembering the 21 victims

This month 50 years ago - on 21 November 1974 - two bombs exploded in the heart of Birmingham city, killing 21 people and injuring over 200 more....

13.11.2024 3

The Irish News

Cormac Moore

How the ‘third man’ on the Boundary Commission 100 years ago helped secure the border for unionism

One hundred years ago, in October 1924, the third and final representative to the Irish Boundary Commission, Joseph R Fisher, its Northern Ireland...

30.10.2024 3

The Irish News

Cormac Moore

Fake news and the battle over the Irish border

The concept of fake news is not new. It did not start spewing from a golden toilet in Manhattan, although the capacity of Donald Trump to lie...

17.10.2024 4

The Irish News

Cormac Moore

What history tells us about how the Irish language has been treated in the north of Ireland

Referring to how elements of Gaelic culture were being eroded in Northern Ireland at its birth, Edward Millington Stephens, secretary of the Irish...

02.10.2024 20

The Irish News

Cormac Moore

‘The Irish banshee is once again in our midst’

Speaking in Wales 100 years ago this month, in September 1924, the former British prime minister David Lloyd George warned that the “Irish banshee...

19.09.2024 10

The Irish News

Cormac Moore

Lessons on preparing for constitutional change

In the autumn of 1925, Irish Free State president of the Executive Council, WT Cosgrave, directed government departments to produce memoranda...

04.09.2024 10

The Irish News

Cormac Moore

Think Stormont has a long summer break? Not compared to 1921

Every summer when parliaments recess, people complain about the lengthy holidays politicians get, when, in reality, most politicians who want to be...

21.08.2024 3

The Irish News

Cormac Moore

Politics and sport will always be intertwined

Many people claim politics and sport should never mix, while sportspeople regularly tie themselves in knots saying they have nothing to do with...

08.08.2024 5

The Irish News

Cormac Moore

From Paris 1924 to 2024: 100 Years of Ireland at the Olympic Games

This Friday, an opening ceremony will herald the beginning of the Olympic Games in Paris, the third time the city has hosted the event after doing...

24.07.2024 1

The Irish News

Cormac Moore