#17 From the borders of the union
An Mhór-Roinn, The continent
Growing up in Northern Ireland’s county Armagh, Tomaí Ó Conghaile was just one kilometre away from the border of the Republic of Ireland, where children
6 February 2023
Growing up in Northern Ireland’s county Armagh, Tomaí Ó Conghaile was just one kilometre away from the border of the Republic of Ireland, where children
Snow is falling over Lipa, a temporary camp for migrants, 30 kilometres away from the city of Bihać in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It snowed last night and it’s snowing again tonight. It’s not falling in my neighbourhood yet— maybe just a snowflake or two— and I’ve never looked forward to it less. After Lipa, snow will never look the same again. So I’m walking through the city, trying to make sense of our becoming so cold-hearted.
Three generations look at the fight for equality in the French overseas department of Martinique
In 2019, a harness-clad Icelandic performance group named Hatari appeared on the Eurovision song contest stage to perform their song Hatrið Mun Sigra (Hatred Will Prevail). Through screaming, singing and strobe lights, the group shared their dystopian vision of the future: a society crippled, collapsed by consumerism, capitalism, and hate. The band achieved such popularity that Icelandic children began dressing up as members of Hatari for Halloween.
On 29 October 1923, a modern nation rose from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and first president of the
On hot summer days, my mother would take my brother and I swimming in the Rhine. In the “Alter Rhein”—an old branch of the river
Thousands and thousands of young people—dressed in their summer outfits—walk up the road to the Germia national park in Kosovo’s capital, Pristina. They are here
The French Empire’s bid for a European Algeria—and the French Republic’s crusade against an Algerian France
If there is one thing that was not spoken about around the dinner table when I was growing up, it was the European Union. Being
Young people have long been leaving Albania in search of better opportunities abroad. Over the past decade, more than one million Albanians have emigrated. This
