The June 1998 issue
June 1998, the last surviving issue before the paper went quiet. The referendums had passed. Inside: Culloden, Bloomsday, Gerry Adams, George Mitchell’s Liberty Medal and a sharp column on Bono’s role in the campaign.
A celebration of James Joyce: Bloomsday
Every June 16, Dublin and its imitators walk the route of Leopold Bloom. Joan Farrell explains the fuss over a once-banned novel about one ordinary day.
Celtic Mythology: Warriors and their weapons
Steve Blamires on Fergus mac Roich and his sword Caladbolg, the poet Feircheirdne, and Fionn mac Cumhaill's thumb of knowledge.
From the mouth of the lion: Culloden - graveyard of the clans
Alex Campbell traces the road to Drummossie Moor, where the Jacobite army broke on 16 April 1746, and finds his own clan on the government side.
Gerry Adams: Perdurable peacemaker
Written in West Belfast in 1996 and reprinted after the Good Friday Agreement, a sympathetic American portrait of the Sinn Féin president on the eve of all-party talks.
Irish peace initiative overwhelmingly supported in both north and south
On 22 May 1998 voters on both sides of the border endorsed the Good Friday Agreement. Patrick S. McCormick reported the result and the fights still ahead.
Mitchell to receive 1998 Liberty Medal
Weeks after the Good Friday Agreement, Philadelphia named its chairman, former Senate majority leader George J. Mitchell, for its Fourth of July honour.
Perspective: Bono pulls a boner
Days before the 1998 referendum, Bono shared a Belfast stage with John Hume and David Trimble. Patrick S. McCormick was not impressed.
Perspective: Hand over your weapons
Patrick S. McCormick argued in June 1998 that IRA disarmament could only come as part of a mutual stand-down, and tipped his hat to Clinton and Mitchell.
Symons Says: 'Green grow the grasses, ho ...'
A summer call from Auntie Skattin means awnings, screens and a cedar chest in the garret, where Tommy Symons finds the hospital bill for his own birth.