by RuthDE | May 2, 2023 | 2023, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, May
The first time I heard of a coronation outside fiction, I was nine. Published: 1 May 2023 It was 1953, I was growing up in Dublin and some of my female relatives were complaining bitterly that the IRA were threatening to blow up cinemas that showed the crowning...
by RuthDE | Jul 16, 2018 | 2018, Journalism, Sunday Independent
It didn’t please republican puritans, but Irish people know how to greet strangers warmly, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 15 July 2018 ‘The fawning over #HarryandMeghan has been pretty nauseating,” tweeted The Irish Times journalist Kitty...