Sentences with phrase «irish nationalists»

Its backdrop is the Troubles, the three - decade - long conflict that pitted Irish nationalists against unionists, the former fighting to bring British rule in Northern Ireland to an end.

But why are Irish nationalists so hard bent on keeping the border open?

The Irish nationalists now have seven MPs but they have historically refused to attend the Westminster parliament.

Moreover, they suggest that there would be demands by Irish nationalists for a referendum on leaving the UK to join with pro-EU southern Ireland instead, potentially destabilising the situation in the North.

Irish nationalists supported Belfast Celtic.

It seems that whatever happens (or happened) in a UK general election, the Irish nationalist party, Sinn Féin, will presumably always be in opposition.

In charge of keeping us safe from the threat of Islamic and Irish nationalist terrorists, paedophiles, killers, rapists and drug dealers.

GR: I'm talking with Onondaga County Court Judge Joseph Fahey and we have been discussing his new book, titled James K. McGuire: Boy Mayor and Irish Nationalist.

[46] 18 seats were contested in Northern Ireland, where both Irish nationalist parties, Sinn Féin and the SDLP, held their seats, the unionist UUP (in an electoral pact with the Conservatives) lost their only seat and the DUP lost a seat.

«Odd Man Out» (1947), 7:00 p.m.: After a botched robbery, Irish nationalist (James Mason) goes on the lam.

We meet the usual suspects — Beckett, Pound, Eliot, Yeats and those two remarkable women who played such a significant role in Joyce's career, Harriet Weaver and Sylvia Beach — and witness the writer's passing encounters with the likes of Vladimir Lenin and Irish nationalist Patrick Pearse.

County Tyrone's most celebrated artists include: Oliver Sheppard (Irish Nationalist sculptor); Felim Egan, (Contemporary Abstract Artist); Roy Lyndsay, (Landscape and Figure Paintings); Clement McAleer, (Abstract Painter working in Acrylics); Denis Orme Shaw, (Contemporary Painter); Victor Sloan, (Lens - based Artist, Painter and Printmaker); Robert Ponsonby Staples, (Portrait, Genre and Landscape Painter).

Not exact matches

It has prompted renewed calls from Scottish nationalists for a vote on independence, and members of the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish governments have complained the national government has not involved them enough its Brexit negotiation preparations.

Fifty - eight Liberal Democrats and 32 nationalist and Northern Irish MPs also occupy the green benches at Westminster.

Given the Conservatives distasteful campaign, the unrelenting politicisation of Corbyn's relationship with the IRA, their call for an end to the «unfair» prosecution of British soldiers for crimes committed during the Troubles and their present desire for a deal with the DUP, one might be forgiven for wondering how a Conservative government might ever expect to be perceived by nationalists as independent guarantors of the Nothern Irish peace process.

Indeed, from a republican perspective it is difficult to imagine a more caustic bête noire against which to rally nationalist sentiment against the British government and behind Irish reunification.

Of the Northern Irish parties, the Ulster Unionist Party and the Democratic Unionist Party support immigration in moderation, while the nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party and Sinn Féin are more or less silent on the matter.

The Nationalist point of view would see the Northen Irish border in the same way.

I think that from the point of view of cobbling together the necessary numbers, to rely on the Scottish Nationalist and the Northern Irish as we would have to, their demand will be that the English get all the cuts.

Continuing into the twentieth century, major works by Maurice de Vlaminck, Henry Moore, Philip Guston and Ellsworth Kelly accompany such Irish masterpieces as the nationalist - inspired canvases of Sean Keating and Maurice McGonigal, and the Modernist works of Jack B. Yeats and Mainie Jellett.

For other important Irish sculptors, read about the neo-classical John Hogan, the Anglo - Irish John Henry Foley, the Romantic Nationalist Oliver Sheppard, the nationalist realist Albert Power, the small - scale sculptress Rosamund Praeger, the traditional stone sculptor Seamus Murphy, the Polish - Irish sculptress Alexandra Wejchert, the contemporary steel sculptor Conor Fallon, the bird artist Oisin Kelly, the public artist Eamonn O'Doherty and the figurative sculptor RowanNationalist Oliver Sheppard, the nationalist realist Albert Power, the small - scale sculptress Rosamund Praeger, the traditional stone sculptor Seamus Murphy, the Polish - Irish sculptress Alexandra Wejchert, the contemporary steel sculptor Conor Fallon, the bird artist Oisin Kelly, the public artist Eamonn O'Doherty and the figurative sculptor Rowannationalist realist Albert Power, the small - scale sculptress Rosamund Praeger, the traditional stone sculptor Seamus Murphy, the Polish - Irish sculptress Alexandra Wejchert, the contemporary steel sculptor Conor Fallon, the bird artist Oisin Kelly, the public artist Eamonn O'Doherty and the figurative sculptor Rowan Gillespie.