On 15 November 1985 the governments of the United Kingdom and of Ireland signed an Agreement – with the status of an international treaty – which stipulated that Dublin would have a consultative role in the administration of Northern Ireland. This marked the most important constitutional and diplomatic development in Anglo-Irish relations since Partition in […]

A Churchill Archives Conference  “Last time I saw it all coming and cried aloud to my own fellow-countrymen and the world, but no one paid any attention.”  In Fulton, Missouri on 5 March 1946, Winston Churchill gave an address entitled ‘The Sinews of Peace’, in which he warned of an ‘iron curtain’ descending across the […]