This week marks the anniversary of the reintroduction of internment without trial in the North of Ireland in 1971.
Since the partition of Ireland in 1922, the British Unionist-controlled government in Stormont had interned Irish Republican prisoners in every decade up until the 1970s. My grandfather was interned in the 1940s, an uncle in the 1950’s and two uncles in the 1970s. As a family, we knew the cost of the internment.
Areas hardest hit by the Great Irish Famine did not experience an expected stunting in height of the population, new academic research has found.
The research from Queen’s Business School in Belfast and Edinburgh Business School has examined the impact of one of the defining events in Irish history.
In the quiet corners of Cleveland’s Irish history, where census data meets family stories and where faded maps reveal the footsteps of our ancestors, Francis McGarry built an intellectual home. For more than a decade, we traveled with Francis through