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IRISH Republican Army (IRA) leaders discussed the possibility of a federal Ireland in secret talks with the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) in 1988, state papers have claimed.
Meetings between the IRA army council and senior UVF officials were mediated by Father John Murphy, a chaplain in the Maze prison according to official government documents.
He was keen to keep details of the talks secret with opposition to the discussions apparently voiced by the Northern Ireland Office (NIO), Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
AARON SMITH discusses why the Protestant diaspora are still part of Yeats’s ‘Indomitable Irishry’, and an integral part of any future united Ireland.
TOM GALLAHUE argues that asking what role Irish diaspora educators can play in shaping Irish unity is to ask a deeper question about democracy itself
A new group within the NEU is preparing the labour movement for a conversation on Irish unity by arguing that true liberation must be rooted in working-class solidarity and anti-sectarianism, writes ROBERT POOLE
Why not pay a visit to Feile an Phobail, a people’s festival of community arts with roots in the days of internment without trial, and where the spirit of solidarity remains undimmed, says LYNDA WALKER