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Dublin: 18 °C Wednesday 19 June, 2013

Nationalism

# nationalism - Saturday 13 April, 2013

From TheJournal.ie ‘Desperate’ Ireland wanted Britain to send NATO troops to Northern Ireland The Troubles

‘Desperate’ Ireland wanted Britain to send NATO troops to Northern Ireland

A Wikileaks cable reveals that Garret FitzGerald asked the United States not to oppose any British reassignment of troops.

# nationalism - Wednesday 16 January, 2013

From TheJournal.ie Column: The Irish Government must help end the flag protests Belfast

Column: The Irish Government must help end the flag protests

The issue in the North over flying the Union Jack requires quiet diplomacy, not grandstanding or lecturing. It’s in everyone’s interest that Dublin help broker a deal, writes Michael Anderson.

# nationalism - Tuesday 18 December, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Column: Why are loyalists so angry about a flag? Opinion

Column: Why are loyalists so angry about a flag?

The furious protests in Belfast are born primarily of the hurt of abandonment, writes Michael Anderson.

# nationalism - Monday 21 May, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Column: National pride or bald-faced bigotry? Maybe neither, or both. Opinion

Column: National pride or bald-faced bigotry? Maybe neither, or both.

Being proud to be Irish is sometime looked on as a social gaffe, writes Lisa McInerney, but that’s not always fair… and it’s not always the best way to figure out who really is racist…

# nationalism - Friday 27 April, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Column: ‘Listening to a dull speech in Stormont was the happiest day of my life’ Opinion

Column: ‘Listening to a dull speech in Stormont was the happiest day of my life’

Senator George Mitchell, who oversaw the negotiation of the Good Friday Agreement, recounts his experiences planting the first seeds of peace.

# nationalism - Wednesday 18 January, 2012

From TheJournal.ie New £2m fund to bring down Belfast’s ‘peace walls’ Northern Ireland

New £2m fund to bring down Belfast’s ‘peace walls’

An independent international fund is putting up £2m to bring about the conditions allowing Northern Ireland’s ‘peace walls’ to fall.