Published: 4 August 2020 It is a grievous sin in Ireland, my native country, to speak any ill of the recently dead, but reading and listening to some of the guff being produced by the likes of Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and the Irish president about John Hume, I...
Last week’s attack on Irish Freedom Party in Belfast highlights the lack of tolerance, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 3 August 2020 It’s very easy to have people, or parties, labelled far-Right, regardless of their actual beliefs, which is what a...
There’s no point in providing history students with an inoffensive curriculum, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 27 July 2020 Last month I saw a young woman on a TV news programme being asked if she thought Winston Churchill was a racist whose statue on...
Michelle O’Neill was abused online but it’s tame compared to what I receive, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 20 July 2020 Three Sinn Fein communications in the last few days intrigued me. What was Francie Molloy, the MP for Mid Ulster, up to when he...
A new book examines the incompatibility, between nationalists and unionists, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 13 July 2020 Trump is taking on the historical revisionists – that was the Spectator headline on an article by my friend Douglas Murray, who was...
The strategy behind the infamous Storey funeral was to show contempt to democracy and wind up unionists, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 6 July 2020 As if there was any doubt, the shameless behaviour of those organising and leading Bobby Storey’s funeral...
We should challenge false narrative peddled by Sinn Fein over late IRA man, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 29 June 2020 When it comes to the deaths of those associated with Sinn Fein and the IRA, I don’t adhere to the convention that one should postpone...
Jean Kennedy Smith was Irish republicanism’s ambassador to the US, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 22 June 2020 Regretting the death of Jean Kennedy Smith, US Ambassador to Ireland from 1993 for five years, who died last Wednesday in Manhattan aged 92,...
A new breed of ‘offence archaeologists’ waging war on anyone holding dissenting views, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 15 June 2020 What sort of decrepit rock did you climb from under you absolutely hideous harridan?” tweeted one of my critics last week. “You’re...
Of course there must be racial equality, but new fad of hating the police is so wrong, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 7 June 2020 Black Lives Matter coverage reminded me of being in the civil rights march in Washington in August 1963. I’d been in Baltimore...
