BELFAST. June 2026. Burnt out homes. Terrified families fleeing in the night. We’ve been here before. A knife attack by Hadi Alodid, a Sudanese asylum seeker in Nationalist North Belfast, triggered anti-immigration riots by Union Jack clad mobs. Loyalist-led pogroms are not new, but their target is. Catholic Irish have been replaced by people of colour.

STUDENTS of modern Irish history are welcoming a new e-book series examining the history of Irish Republicanism, from the Border Campaign of the 1950s right up to the Belfast Agreement in 1998, using the personal accounts of those who were involved.