Blog posts tagged "Northern Ireland"

June 16, 2010 8:54 am 24 Comments

There’s prosperity in Londonderry, Belfast and in so many of Northern Ireland’s towns and villages that throughout the Troubles was for ever absent.

November 18, 2009 12:40 pm No Comments

In the 93 years that separate the battle of the Somme from the UK's present engagement in Afghanistan, our tolerance of death on the battlefield has experienced a welcome revolution, blogs Jon Snow.

March 11, 2009 11:55 am No Comments

I leave Belfast a city preparing for some sort of manifestation of resistance to a return to killing. Nobody knows how many people will turn out. Indeed, I suspect a lot of people will just stand outside their workplaces and may do it in communities right across Northern Ireland.

March 10, 2009 1:01 pm No Comments

Oh dear. Here we go again. Haven’t been to Northern Ireland “in anger” in a dozen years, though I have been to give the odd lecture and to enjoy the peace and prosperity of the region. But today it seems a little as it did when I first went 35 years ago – a sort [...]