Tag: Democratic Unionist Party (Northern Ireland)

Northern Ireland Has a Sinn Fein Leader. It’s a Landmark Moment.

As Michelle O’Neill walked down the marble staircase in Northern Ireland’s Parliament building on the outskirts of Belfast on Saturday, she appeared confident and calm. She smiled as applause erupted from supporters in the balcony. Only the seriousness of her gaze conveyed the gravity of the moment. The political party she represents, Sinn Fein, was […]

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In Northern Ireland, a Knotty Brexit Problem Is on the Brink of Being Solved

Almost two years of political gridlock. Decision-making paralyzed. Rising tension in a place where peace remains fragile even after the end of decades of sectarian strife. There are few places where the impact of Britain’s exit from the European Union been felt more sharply than in Northern Ireland. But on Wednesday there were rising hopes […]

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D.U.P. in Northern Ireland Breaks Political Deadlock After Nearly 2 Years

The Democratic Unionist Party, the main Protestant party in Northern Ireland and one of its biggest political forces, said on Tuesday that it was ready to return to power sharing after a boycott of almost two years had paralyzed decision-making in the region. After an internal meeting that stretched into the early morning, Jeffrey Donaldson, […]

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A United Ireland May Be More Than a Dream

Before she died in 2013, Dolours Price, a Provisional Irish Republican Army guerrilla, started granting interviews. She described planting I.R.A. bombs and driving people to their executions, smuggling explosives and going on hunger strike in a British prison. But it was Ms. Price’s memories of girlhood in 1950s Northern Ireland that kept running through my […]

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