Thomas Gilmartin
Thomas Gilmartin is a freelance writer with a degree in history, a master's in international relations and law degree from King's College London. He worked for several years at a high-profile anti-corruption tribunal in Dublin.
The struggle for regional dominance in the Middle East
Middle East
The struggle for regional dominance in the Middle East
Thomas Gilmartin
Thomas Gilmartin is a freelance writer with a degree in history, a master’s in...
Northern Ireland’s current language crisis
The current cultural conflict in Northern Ireland, and, in particular, the argument over the status of its languages, is at the core of a political crisis regarding restoring the power-sharing assembly.
Homage to Catalonia
The first thought that came to my head upon witnessing events in Catalonia during the independence referendum on October 1 was to wonder whether anyone in the Madrid government had ever read a history book. If even one of them had, they might well have avoided what has become a strategic and PR blunder of possibly historic scale, handing Catalan nationalism a huge boost in the process.