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'Both Kevin and Sadie are described as restless and easily bored, so it is ironic that their youthful defiance involves them embracing the most expected institution of all: marriage' Photo: Getty Images

Normal people: Kevin and Sadie's teenage love story

Books • 11 Aug

Thousands attended the funeral of former Provisional IRA member, Bobby Storey, causing much controversy owing to the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions

The troublesome world of paramilitary funerals

History • 08 Jul

Members of the Royal Irish Constabulary being inspected before duty at the Derry by-election in 1913. Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

The uneasy relationship between unionists and the RIC

History • 24 Jun

A woman IRA volunteer on active service in west Belfast with an AR18 assault rifle. Photo: Colman Doyle Collection/National Library of Ireland

The story behind an iconic Troubles' photo

Northern Ireland • 17 Jun

Derry-born James McClean after the Republic of Ireland's Euro 2020 qualifier against Denmark in Dublin in November 2019. Photo: Seb Daly/Sportsfile via Getty Images

A game of two halves: Ireland's two footballing nations

Sport • 01 May

"The difficulty of confronting uncomfortable pasts has become heightened in the north, particularly due to the tensions around the issue of Brexit and a United Ireland border poll"

The problems around commemorating the Troubles

commemoration • 28 Apr

Irish people demonstrate in London in 1921 about the partition of Ireland under the Government of Ireland Act 1920. Photo: AFP via Getty Images

Can partition and the Irish border be commemorated?

History • 07 Apr

The aftermath of an IRA car bomb in Bangor, Co Down in October 1992. Photo: EPA/AFP via Getty Images

Did British intelligence force the IRA into peace?

History • 12 Feb

"Campaign groups campaign groups such as An Dream Dearg are nonetheless disappointed that the deal does not amount to a standalone Irish language act"

What's the real deal with Stormont's Irish language proposals?

irish language • 15 Jan

SDLP leader Colum Eastwood, Ulster Unionist leader Steve Aiken, Sinn Féin deputy leader Michelle O'Neill, DUP South Belfast Candidate Emma Little-Pengelly and Alliance leader Naomi Long with UTV presenter Marc Mallett at the recording of an election debat

Do the Northern Ireland parties' election manifestos add up?

UK Election 2019 • 10 Dec 19

"For many loyalists, their identity is as central as their constitutional status within the UK"

The influence of loyalist paramilitaries on the UK election

Northern Ireland • 09 Dec 19

Ballycairn Presbyterian Church in Lisburn. Photo: Bobby McKay Drumbo https://www.flickr.com/photos/b0b0b/

How Northern Ireland's Presbyterians remember the Troubles

History • 27 Nov 19

Derry women protesting in September 1976. Photo: Michel Artault Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

How The Long Note tells the histories of the women of Derry

Culture • 19 Nov 19

Full speed ahead: "Northern Ireland's continuing membership of the UK requires democratic interrogation"

How Northern Ireland could work its way back to EU after Brexit

Brexit • 14 Oct 19

British Army troops patrol the streets after being deployed to end the Battle of the Bogside in Derry in Augusg 1969. Photo: Getty Images

Remembering the Battle of the Bogside 50 years on

Northern Ireland • 12 Aug 19

The iconic photo of Fr Edward Daly during Blood Sunday

How the Catholic Church impacted on the Troubles

Northern Ireland • 24 Jul 19

A £41 million putt: Shane Lowry at The Open at Portrush. Photo: Jan Kruger/R&A/R&A via Getty Images

How much is the Open worth to Northern Ireland?

Economics • 21 Jul 19

A grand day for a march

Why Northern Ireland's unionists need to reinvent themselves

Unionism • 11 Jul 19

Fr Gerry Reynolds: "he also sought to embed ecumenism in the wider Irish Catholic Church"

Fr Gerry Reynolds: faith and the peacemaker

religion • 27 May 19

"Derry Girls can be characterised less as quality TV and more as good television"

Derry Girls and the value of good television

Derry Girls • 13 May 19

Youths walk past anti-IRA graffiti in Derry the day after journalist Lyra McKee was shot dead. Photo: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images

Why there's still support for dissident republican groups

Northern Ireland • 30 Apr 19

""Whilst the majority of the population experience good mental health, there remains a significant minority for whom trauma exposure has led to severe and enduring mental illness" Photo: Jnoz Balzs/ EyeE/Getty

"Protestants keep toasters in the cupboard"

Mental Health • 17 Apr 19

Victims of an IRA bomb in 1973. Photo: David Cairns/Getty Images

How Northern Ireland's doctors and nurses coped with the Troubles

The Troubles • 03 Apr 19

Airey Neave who was killed 40 years ago in an INLA car bomb attack. Photo: Getty Images

The life and death of British spy turned politician Airey Neave

Airey Neave • 28 Mar 19

"Brexit has inevitably invited reflection about the constitutional future of this island"

'A new conversation about united Ireland could be a win for all'

Ireland • 27 Mar 19

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