Issue 481 of the new FORTNIGHT@50 will be published during April in both on-line and printed versions.
The main focus will be on the problems and side-effects of the Northern Ireland Protocol with contributions by Rory Montgomery, Edgar Morgenroth and Bernard Conlon.
There will be political coverage of the response from Loyalists by Aaron Edwards, the need for Unionist bridge-building by Jamie Pow and more general contributions on uncertainties and angst in the wider unionist community. In the arts pages Rosemary Jenkinson looks for a Protestant Heaney, along with prose and poetry from new writers.
Issue contents
Politics
Rory Montgomery
Protocol problems for both parts of Ireland: North and South
Bernard Conlon
Britain, Ireland and Europe: Vacillating and vitriol over vaccines
Edgar Morgenroth
NI Protocol, a view from Dublin
Andy Pollak
Why I don’t believe in Border Polls
Aaron Edwards
Leaders and followers in Ulster Unionism
Jamie Pow
The bridges unionists need to build
Connal Parr
The SDLP at 50
Economics
Graham Brownlow
Hard heads, soft hearts and solid institutions
Emer Smyth and Robert Morgan
Generational unfairness & COVID-19: All in this together?
Society/Culture
Claire Mitchell
Thank you NHS (sorry about the PPE)
Paul Nolan
Did you say kneecapping?
Marcus Leroux
The annals of Tayto Island
Malachi O’Doherty
Northern humour
Cian O’Neill
False flags, falso dawns and claptocrats: The London Letter
Arts
Rosemary Jenkinson
On the eve of the Centenary where is the Protestant Heaney?
Michelle Gallen
Factory girls – an extract
Poetry
Bebe
Ashley
Scott McKendry
Raquel McKee
Nandipha Jola
Andrew Sturrock
Books/Reviews
Feargal Cochrane
Alexis Forss
