Cormac Moore
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Cormac Moore: Perfidious Albion has tricked nationalists once before. Will it happen again with a border poll? (opens the original)
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British governments did not legally break the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty in their handling of the Boundary Commission, but they broke its spirit. Not only did their duplicitous interpretations of the boundary clause decide its outcome, which was deeply skewed in favour of unionism, the way they cloaked their trickery with diplomatic speak amplified the bitterness felt by nationalists. Likewise, British governments are not obliged under the 1998 Good Friday Agreement to publish the conditions they w
Cormac Moore: Ãire, the Republic, Northern Ireland and âthe Northâ â whatâs in a name? (opens the original)
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IN the just-released The Rest is History podcast series on the outbreak of the Troubles, Tom Holland claimed that âevery geographical expression in this story annoys peopleâ, with Dominic Sandbrook agreeing, saying âevery name is a choiceâ. The naming of places in Ireland has long been a political and cultural minefield that continues to exercise heated debate. The ongoing division over Irish language signs in Northern Ireland is a good example of the potency of the issue. The different
Cormac Moore: Remembering the Peace People 50 years on (opens the original)
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FIFTY years ago, following the horrific deaths of three children on Finaghy Road North in west Belfast, two women, Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, started a mass peace movement. The Community for Peace People attracted thousands to rallies and garnered international attention, culminating in the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the women. While the movementâs momentum stalled and the organisers had their critics, it was the first effective ground-up peace movement during the Troubles
Cormac Moore: 100 years of The Soldierâs Song, the national anthem that Ireland has never fully embraced (opens the original)
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A century ago, in July 1926, âThe Soldierâs Songâ became the official national anthem of the Irish Free State. Reflecting a lack of love towards the song at the time, it did so without any fanfare, announced as a brief answer in Dáil Ãireann on July 20 by the Minister of Defence, Peter Hughes, to a question from a backbench government TD, Osmond Grattan Esmonde. The Irish-language version that is used almost exclusively now, Amhrán na bhFiann, was only commonly sung from the 1930s. It h
Cormac Moore: From partition to Thatcher and Brexit, calls for a hard border ignore the lessons of history (opens the original)
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In a recent Red C poll published in the Sunday Business Post, more than a third (36%) of those polled based in the 26 counties, when asked if they supported a hard border between the Republic and Northern Ireland to curb onward migration from the UK, responded that they would. 41% of respondents were opposed to a hard border, while the remaining 23% were unsure. While it could be argued that the question was clearly framed to elicit strong responses on immigration, it still is surprising that so
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