When she reflects on the past 25 years, Ruth Dudley Edwards is haunted by memories of her two close friends, David Trimble and Lyra McKee, two gifted but very different people who bookend that period Published: 18 April 2023 For the last few weeks I’ve been...
I’ve only been a declared unionist for a very short while and already I’m a Lundy. Published: 12 April 2022 Most recently this accusation has been levelled at me over a tweet I wrote the other day in response to the defaced poster of Doug Beattie showing him with a...
With some of the usual suspects still boring on about a border poll, I want to go back to basics. Published: 6 July 2021 I apologise to those who have heard this story before, but I think it one of the most telling comments about Irish aspirations to unity I’ve ever...
People blind to European Union’s bid to create a federation Published: 7 September 2020 I’ve now finished reading Ireland and the EU Post Brexit (which I wrote about last week) by Ray Bassett, a former Irish ambassador to Canada, whose public...
New book shows south does not have the ties to Europe that the elite likes to think it has, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 31 August 2020 Although I loved my time at University College Dublin in the 1960s, I emigrated to England as soon as I could in search of...
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...
Ireland’s role in ‘radicalising’ curriculum in West Bank and Gaza linked to need for Arab votes at UN, claims Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 23 September 2019 I have great respect for the professionalism of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs. So I was surprised...
Sinn Fein/IRA might have stopped killing, but their destructiveness means they’re still a cancer on our islandPublished: 10 March 2019This column is packing its bags, so I thought I’d do a bit of a trip down memory lane.Just over 25 years ago, in January...
In the latest essay in our series, RUTH DUDLEY EDWARDS writes that the NIO has come up with is a Sinn Fein wish list on legacy, but it is not too late to fight back Published: 2 October 2018 In four decades of following events in Northern Ireland closely, I’ve seen...
Despite the fuss, my criticisms of the Belfast Agreement have nothing to do with Brexit, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: Sunday 25 February 2018 Last week an article of mine in The Daily Telegraph sparked off a big row between Brexiteers and Remainers over the...
