The anti-nuclear festivals at Carnsore Point, 1978-1981, were recalled at a lively and political event called ‘Memory of a Free Festival’ at the Projects Arts Centre in central Dublin which will now ...

A synopsis of a fuller story covered in Village‘s print magazine. Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar has come to be known as a leaker. The hashtag #leotheleak has trended on Twitter on several occasions ...

1. Memories of Brigadier Frank Kitson. David Burke’s fascinating new book on Frank Kitson includes a comprehensive analysis of what has become known around the world as ‘Bloody Sunday’. Reading it has ...

1. Kitson’s Private Army. Lance Corporal David Cleary was a member of the elite Support Company of the 1 st Parachute Regiment which was commanded by Colonel Derek Wilford. Wilford reported upwards to ...

Chris Moore, formerly a reporter with BBC NI, was among a small group of – genuinely – courageous journalists who put their lives and careers at risk by reporting the hard truth about the Kincora ...

The legacy of Chris Ryder, the former Sunday Times (ST) journalist who passed away last Friday, is not one to be proud of: he was one of a number of journalists who helped MI5 and the RUC’s Special ...

Enoch Powell and a young Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, the new leader of the DUP. Powell, a racist and paedophile, believed that “the analytical faculty is underdeveloped in women”. The late Enoch Powell was ...

Conor Lenihan reviews ‘Deception and Lies – the Hidden History of the Arms Crisis 1970’ by David Burke: the arms crisis was a legitimate operation of state which history has falsely judged as a ...

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has displayed no interest in Lord Louis Mountbatten’s links to the Anglo-Irish Vice Ring. Its members preyed upon Kincora Boys’ Home and other ...

In the very early 1970s, Brigadier (later General, Sir) Frank Kitson and his colleagues decided to confront the IRA, and only the IRA. Kitson’s superior, Lord Michael Carver, revealed in his memoirs ...

Among the diaries attributed to Roger Casement there is a cash ledger for 1911 which is also part diary. This has been scrutinised by several authors, most closely by Jeffrey Dudgeon, the Belfast ...

New evidence has emerged about the UVF’s bombing of McGurk’s Bar in Belfast in December 1971. The explosion caused the entire structure of the premises to collapse, killing fifteen Catholic civilians ...