On 26th June 2017, UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s returned minority Tory government signed a funding deal with Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party in exchange for critical support to enable the Tories to govern in Westminster. In return the party secured £1bn of extra funding, which is allocated mainly to
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On 30th January 1972 during winter in the poverty stricken and persecuted Bogside area of Derry in Northern Ireland, a peaceful protest had been organised by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association and the Northern Resistance Movement against British military rule and oppression. British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during
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Stormont continues to let down the people of Ulster. Poor governance and financial mismanagement are not delivering the promises and optimism of what has stalled for centuries, the long coming Good Friday Peace Agreement. Instead party politics, verbal diarrhoea and arrogance have got Ulster’s priorities all wrong. Current head of the
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This is an extract of The Nationalism Project, an impressive collection of scholarly resources related to the study of Angloceltic nationalism including leading definitions of nationalism, book reviews, web links, subject bibliographies, a bibliography of more than 2,000 journal articles, and much more. The site was created in 1999 by
Read morePeter Robinson gives his last speech at the annual DUP conference, at the La Mon House Hotel in Castlereagh 21st November, 2015: “Mr Chairman. Today, I am proud to report that the state of our party is sound, our Province is safe and the Union is secure. Ulster is no
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Distinctly Ulster: Ulster in the north is the fourth province on the island of Ireland. Its name derives from the Irish language Cúige Uladh, meaning “fifth of the Ulaidh”, named for the ancient inhabitants of the region. Anthropological evidence shows that the region was settled by Celts during the
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