O'Connell wasn't a nationalist in the modern mould ... most of them with tongue in cheek. Now the political map of Northern Ireland makes the polarisation of the region starkly plain.

It charts the extraordinary economic, social, and political transformation of Ireland since 1958, the year the author was born. Before, the country was “a backwater and an irrelevance,” with an ...

It’s a map of Pangea — a supercontinent that formed roughly 300 million years ago — mapped with contemporary geopolitical borders. What you see here is an anachronistic mashup — a modern ...

as representing “modern Ireland”. The 32 essays are divided into three sections which examine religion, politics and society during specific time spans: the first, 1800-1922, covers the period ...

TK Whitaker played a significant role at a critical point in Irish history He was a distinguished civil servant whose ideas helped to shape modern Ireland ... sides of the political divide.