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The British Museum Maritime History of Britain and Ireland c. 400 - 2001

The British Museum Maritime History of Britain and Ireland c. 400 - 2001. Ian Friel. The British Museum Press. L25.00. 304 pages. ISBN 0-7141-2718-3. This book is concerned not just With naval history ...
The Irish Times

These Divided Isles: Ireland and UK shared history told with ‘reliable pithiness’

I spent four years in London in the afterglow of Queen Elizabeth’s historic state visit to Ireland which one senior courtier described to me as “one of the defining moments of Her Majesty’s reign”.
The New York Times

Recognizing a Palestinian State, Ireland Nods to its Own History

Simon Harris, Ireland’s prime minister, invoked his nation’s struggle for independence from Britain and its decades of violent sectarian conflict. By Megan Specia When the Irish government on ...
The New York Times

Tracing the Deep Roots of Ireland’s Support for Palestinians

In a country with its own history of a seemingly intractable conflict, the majority of people in Ireland are sympathetic to Palestinian civilians, while also condemning the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7. By ...
Teen Vogue

What Were the Troubles? The History of Northern Ireland’s Decades-Long Conflict

In 1984, British prime minister Margaret Thatcher was the target of an assassination attempt at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England. A bomb placed by members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army ...
The Conversation

A genealogy of the term British reveals its imperial history – and a Brexit paradox

Mark A Hutchinson receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust as a research fellow as part of the project 'Rethinking Civil Society: History, Theory, Critique' at the University of York. The genealogy ...
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What's the Difference Between the UK and Britain? Your Guide to the British Isles

The United Kingdom and Ireland are two of the most popular international destinations for Americans. In 2024, over 40 million Americans flew over to the UK, while another 1.5 million headed to the ...
Irish Central

King Charles III at a crossroads between Ireland and Britain

King Charles, at the age of 74, will be formally crowned on Saturday, with all the pomp and circumstance that attends the coronation of a new British monarch. It is a job with a long lineage in ...
Irish Central

Irish and Jewish questions – the chosen people’s history in Ireland

An extract from “Irish Questions and Jewish Questions” a study of the Jews of Ireland and of their social history in Ireland. Editor's note: May marks the Jewish American Heritage Month in the United ...
CNN

Opinion: The British Empire: A legacy of violence?

Editor’s Note: Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a vice president at New America, an author and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. Raised in London, Bergen has a ...
Los Angeles Times

Northern Ireland’s peacemakers of old urge an end to today’s political impasse

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell, an architect of Northern Ireland’s historic 1998 peace accord, urged the territory’s feuding politicians Monday to revive their mothballed ...