John Foster / 18 Sep 2026
Ireland After Unification
Why the South Must Respect the British North
The day Ireland becomes united is the day the real struggle begins.
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Fintan O’Toole
John Foster / 19 Jun 2026
Demographic Populism Failure
The No to Ten Million Switzerland Referendum
The Swiss referendum on population growth underscored the limitations of centrism.(...)
John Foster / 05 Sep 2025
The Trouble with Triumph
Sinn Féin and the Left
The Republic of Ireland evolved out of the debris of revolution and civil war.(...)
John Foster / 11 Apr 2025
Ireland Exposed
Fintan O’Toole’s We Don’t Know Ourselves
Blame it on doublethink. For decades, the Irish knew certain things about themselves without being able to acknowledge them.(...)
John Foster / 03 Mar 2023
Britain Gives Up
Post-Brexit Ireland
The end of Ireland’s Brexit crisis shouldn’t be noteworthy. As Fintan O’Toole noted in The Guardian, the Windsor Framework could have been agreed upon two years ago.(...)