by RuthDE | Dec 13, 2022 | 2022, Belfast News Letter, December, Journalism
Protocol woes aside, the last couple of weeks have been good for unionists. Published: 6 December 2022 The night before she became a non-aligned peer, Arlene Foster launched the Together UK Foundation (https://www.togetherukfoundation.com/) in London, emphasising the...
by RuthDE | Nov 9, 2021 | 2021, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, November
I had a strange, draining and unforgettable Sunday. Published; 9 November 2021 It caused among many other emotions sadness, despair and occasionally laughter, during a tour of killing sites and memorials in south Armagh and at the launch in Belfast of a documentary on...
by RuthDE | Jul 27, 2021 | 2021, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, July
Since the death last week of Desmond (Des, Dessie) O’Malley, minister for justice in the Irish government from 1970 to 1973, I’ve been thinking a lot about that period. Published: 27 July 2021 It was a time when I was settled in London, quite often visiting my parents...
by RuthDE | Apr 8, 2019 | 2019, April, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Published: 8 April 2019 In A Broad Church: The Provisional IRA In The Republic of Ireland, 1969-1980, Gearoid O Faolean provides telling stories about the island-wide sympathy for physical force nationalism that was evident from the beginning of the Troubles. People...
by RuthDE | Jul 2, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Force in Republic needs reform, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards, and politicians, media and citizens know it Published: 2 July 2018 Other than an unpleasant intervention in the Dail by Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald, in the Republic the appointment of PSNI Deputy...
