by Robin Kirk | May 24, 2011 | Robin Kirk
It’s heady times for the Irish Isle, which in the past seven days has welcomed Queen Elizabeth II (the first visit of an English monarch since the Republic gained independence in 1922); the American president (whose forebear, Falmouth Kearney, was the immigrant...
by Robin Kirk | Jun 26, 2010 | Robin Kirk
On Derry’s Waterside, opposite the famous walls of the old city, lies an unusual “star fort” that was for decades the home of British Army troops sent to Northern Ireland. The Ebrington Barracks lies on strategically useful land (King James the...
by Robin Kirk | Jun 15, 2010 | Robin Kirk
Thirty-eight years after the tragedy known as “Bloody Sunday” in Londonderry, a second official inquiry contains one crucial word: “innocent.” The thirteen men who died that day (another died of his wounds four months later) posed “no...
by Robin Kirk | May 28, 2010 | Robin Kirk
One of the most confusing things about Northern Ireland is the contrast between what people say they want and what is. For instance, a report was released yesterday asserting that 80 per cent of people polled in Northern Ireland would prefer to live in...
by Robin Kirk | May 26, 2010 | Robin Kirk
In a recent issue of The Nation, Ari Kelman writes about the quickening pace of extinction. Kelman writes that when Thomas Jefferson wrote his encyclopedic Notes on the State of Virginia, he believed that extinction was biologically impossible. Since God made the...
