Halfpints: Why the poppy divides Ireland

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A hundred years since the end of the First World War, the remembrance poppy remains a controversial symbol in Ireland. Why? Writer Kylie Noble explains what the poppy meant to her as a child growing up in Fermanagh in Northern Ireland, and how she reconciles it with her British and Irish identity today. Naomi O’Leary … Continue reading "Halfpints: Why the poppy divides Ireland"

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