This Month's Editor's Pick

Guerrillas by Seamus Deane

POETRY

Seamus Deane’s beautiful poem probably derives from the experience of a child in the port city of Derry, encountering the foreign sailors and witnessing the city’s response to them.

View more details

Browse the Archive

ARTWORKS

141

ARTISTS

17

ESSAYS

Handpicked from the Archive

White Box

An agreement to set up an Independent International Commission on Decommissioning is signed by the B

View 1997 on our timeline

Lough Lea

The new social housing stock designed and built by the NIHE was an undoubted improvement on what preceded it. Mackel remarks in his Troubles Archive Essay that “many of the houses built in that new build housing stock programme provide pleasant homes and were built to high technical standards in the brick built aesthetic of the city”; however, he goes on to observe, “but many are surrounded by walls and defensible spaces which provide littl

View more details