At the weekend, I was in Dublin, where I was born and brought up, mostly seeing old friends. Published: 6 September 2022 When we got on to politics, there was the predictably gloomy view that there was no stopping the Shinners from getting into government. Some of my...
Here’s a suggestion to unionism in dealing with Irish nationalism. Published: 30 March 2021 Stop reacting and take control of the agenda. “How do you feel about a united Ireland these days?” I recently asked a patriotic friend in the Irish Republic who takes more...
Stopping the Provos destroyed the SDLP and threatens the stability of NI and the Republic, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 10 August 2020 There were bucket-loads of effluent hurled last week at anyone who criticised John Hume for legitimising Sinn Fein. As Eilis...
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...
Labour and the call for a general election from The Times Sir, In the midst of all the knee-jerk excoriation and mockery of the DUP, I was glad to see John Brehcist (letter, Oct 24) reminding us of the horrors they and the unionist community lived through...
New Act of Union needed that guarantees rights and autonomy of each UK region, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 4 November 2019 I’m back from Indianapolis, where I was (excuse the boast) ‘international guest of honor’ at Magna Cum Murder, a...
Tribal politics at very heart of scandal over botched green energy scheme, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 28 October 2019 In the last few days travelling in the American Midwest, my constant companion was Sam McBride’s riveting Burned: The Inside Story Of...
‘Heresy-hunting’ now at a level where contrary views can see you being ostracised, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 7 September 2019 I’ve just read The Madness Of Crowds, a wonderful book by my intrepid friend Douglas Murray about what is behind the hysterical...
Published: 23 May 2018 If it were not for its offensiveness to tens of thousands of victims of IRA violence, Jeremy Corbyn’s visit to Northern Ireland would be comic. In his past incursions into matters Irish, he has appeared to reveal simultaneously ignorance,...
Sinn Fein’s mendacious rewriting of history now sees its members recast as civil rights heroes Published: Sunday 20 May 2018 Of course I know that the bloodstained record it defends, and the lies, corruption and destructiveness of the contemporary Irish...
