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A crisis can create divisions but it can also help heal them.
Irish immigrants, 1874 in Harper’s Weekly.
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Many unwed Irish mothers-to-be travelled to America in the 19th century hoping for a new start
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald (c) with former leader Gerry Adams on the Irish border.
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How Sinn Féin’s position on the EU has shifted.
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Floating bridges and submerged tunnels could be used to cross the Irish Sea.
Prime minister Boris Johnson with deputy first minister Michelle O'Neil, first minister Arlene Foster and Northern Ireland secretary Julian Smith.
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A new deal has been signed that seeks to encourage Sinn Fein and the DUP to work together.
DUP leader Arlene Foster keeps a watchful eye over Nigel Dodds, her man in Westminster.
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The contests in this part of the UK are so unique that they are rarely included in national polling. And this year is no exception.
From left, the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union affects Ireland, too.
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Politicians who want to unite Ireland under a Dublin-based government are stuck choosing whether to participate in the UK in an effort to stay in the EU.
Arlene Foster: does she speak for unionists anymore?
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Has the party unecessarily compromised its powerful position in Westminster?
What … no bluebirds?
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London is a tourist magnet, but the rest of the UK desperately needs investment and promotion. Brexit is not helping.
Campaigners mark the occasion outside Stormont.
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Westminster has pushed Northern Ireland to fall into line with the rest of the UK when it comes to women’s reproductive rights and marriage for same-sex couples.
EU-reka?
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The prime minister has come to a new agreement with Brussels. But the question is whether he can get it through the UK parliament.
Abortion rights supporters in Missouri take part in a protest, after state lawmakers passed rules aimed at closing Missouri’s only abortion clinic, May 30, 2019.
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Young, poor, single and a mother of two: This is the profile of most women in the US and Northern Ireland who seek financial assistance to help pay for an abortion.
Stormont has been closed for several years, with Northern Ireland’s governing parties unable to agree a way forward.
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Some of Northern Ireland’s biggest problems have nothing to do with leaving the EU, but all anyone talks about now is the backstop.
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi leads a Congressional delegation to Ireland in April 2019.
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Northern Ireland looms even larger an issue for Brexit as US Irish Americans wield influence.
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Urgent intervention is needed to secure H&W – and other strategic UK industrial assets – before key skills and capacity are irretrievably lost.
Demonstrators in Scotland make their feelings toward Boris Johnson known.
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The £300m extra funding apparently bypasses the official block funding mechanism that has been in operation since devolution.
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Women’s prisons have become stopgaps, a place to simply put people society does not know what else to do with.
Determined to stop a no deal Brexit.
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MPs opposed to a no-deal Brexit have won a small victory in parliament – but what does it mean?
Orangemen on the march.
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Many voters in Northern Ireland are tired of the sectarian stranglehold of Sinn Fein and the DUP – and the ‘others’ are gaining ground.
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The debacle has highlighted the negative image which unionism must lay to rest for good or face extinction.