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Kate Hoey, ex-Labour MP and now Baroness, sparked controversy recently with a complaint that nationalists are apparently ‘dominating’ professional vocations in the North. Historian Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh cuts through this latest sectarian discourse. Kate Hoey, the former Labour MP and now ermine-clad reactionary, has today (7 January) published
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A century after partition, historian Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh argues that it was far from inevitable, despite what some claim, and that it was a product of Ulster Unionism subverting the demand for Irish self-determination. An historical orthodoxy of sorts exists, which points to partition’s inevitability a century ago,
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Ireland in the early 20th century was a hotbed of revolutionary activity, and James Connolly was central to it. Historian Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh charts James Connolly’s unique political perspective and argues that he provides crucial lessons for the struggles of today. Referring to the veneration of Wolfe Tone by
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Was the defeat of the Irish Revolution an inevitable result of immutable national and sectarian divisions? In this close examination of the little-known surge in labour militancy in Tyrone, and its apex during the Caledon lockout of 1919, Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh sheds new light on the possibilities in a