HNN Hot Topics: Ireland

President John F. Kennedy greets spectators in Cork, Ireland, June 28, 1963. Credit: JFK Library.

The Queen's Visit(s) to Ireland

News

McGuinness spoke to queen about Mountbatten loss (7-2-12)

Historic handshake between British queen and Irish republican (6-27-12)

Queen and ex-IRA leader meet (6-27-12)

Queen’s Ireland Visit Seen as Significant Advance (5-20-11)

Queen Elizabeth Visits Irish Massacre Site (5-18-11)

Queen taken by history of Irish college with royal connection (5-18-11)

The Queen in Ireland: Queen pays tribute to Irish War of Independence dead (5-17-11)

Queen Elizabeth II visits Ireland hours after bomb is found on bus (5-17-11)

The Queen in Ireland: Why royal visit had to wait (5-16-11)

Queen in Ireland: Chequered history behind visit (5-15-11)

Fuss 'n' flurry: Queen Victoria's 1900 visit to Ireland (4-12-11)

Queen 'to make first visit to Ireland' (3-3-10)

Commentary

John O’Sullivan: Forgive IRA Terror? (6-25-12)

Finian O'Toole: Ireland and Britain: Ends and Beginnings (5-23-11)

Max Boot: The Queen Visits Michael Collins’s Ireland (5-17-11)

Eamon Gilmore: The Queen Has Shown the Strength of Britain and Ireland's Relationship (5-17-12)

Boston College Subpeona Case

News

Oral history of N. Ireland strife raises dilemma (2-9-12)

Boston College seeks to quash British subpoenas seeking IRA oral histories (6-8-11)

Tapes hold N. Ireland murder secrets (5-25-12)

Boston College Northern Ireland archive faces federal subpeona (5-25-11)

Opinion

Chris Bray: Misfeasance (6-20-11)

Chris Bray: Troubles (6-17-11)

Chris Bray: Moral Decency Requires That I Betray You (6-15-11)

Related Links

The Guardian (UK): Northern Ireland

University of Ulster: Conflict in Northern Ireland Archive

General News

Caution against 'glory' commemorations as centenary of crucial decade beckons in Ireland (6-25-12)

Rupture With Vatican Reveals a Changed Ireland (9-17-11)

Northern Ireland's decommissioned arms to stay secret (7-4-11)

Will violence ever cease in Northern Ireland, expert wonders (5-3-11)

Bloody Sunday: soldiers should face trial but not jail, families say (6-14-10)

Anger in Northern Ireland at claims Bloody Sunday inquiry has found soldiers 'guilty of unlawful killing' (6-11-10)

Bloody Sunday report: David Cameron apologises for 'unjustifiable' shootings (6-15-10)

Omagh bombing: demand for investigation into whether intelligence withheld (3-16-10)

Northern Ireland: Ulster officials defy 'bullying' after George W Bush 'intervention' (3-9-10)

Queen 'to make first visit to Ireland' (3-3-10)

Car bombing in Newry, Northern Ireland, raises fears of renewed conflict (2-23-10)

Late night deal saves Northern Ireland power-sharing government (2-5-10)

Concerns that Northern Ireland sex scandal will break the peace (1-13-10)

Northern Irish loyalist group disarms (1-6-10)

General Commentary

Paul Bew: What Did Churchill Really Think About Ireland? (2-8-12)

Mary Kenny: Is Ireland Divorcing from the Catholic Church? (7-26-11)

Niall Stanage: Northern Ireland’s McIlroy Transcends Boundaries (7-10-11)

Paul Bew: The Bloody Sunday Inquiry ... Was It Worth It? (6-14-10)

Steve Richards: The real purpose of public inquiries (6-17-10)

Richard Dannatt: Bloody Sunday ... We must not dwell on the errors of the past (6-16-10)

Timothy Lavin: Coming Clean on Northern Ireland's"Bloody Sunday" (6-16-10)

William Underhill: Bloody Sunday Redux (6-16-10)

Mick Fealty: Bloody Sunday Inquiry: Laying the Ghosts to Rest (6-15-10)

Ben Macintyre: De Gaulle would have hated the Saville inquiry (6-15-10)

Paul Bew: The Bloody Sunday Inquiry ... Was It Worth It?(6-14-10)

Kevin Cullen: Northern Ireland Remains a Segregated Society (3-14-10)

David McKittrick: What Really Happened on Bloody Sunday? (3-15-10)

Owen Polley: Northern Ireland Proves Peace is Possible (3-4-10)

Niall Stanage: End of American Era in Northern Ireland (2-6-10)

Gerry Adams: Another Good Friday (2-6-10)