Sadhbh Walshe

Sadhbh Walshe is a filmmaker and journalist whose work has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, The Irish Times, and Al Jazeera. She was a staff writer for the TV series The District. Her screenplay, The Fiddler, was a 2017 PAGE Award and Slamdance finalist. (April 2019)

How Brexit Put a United Ireland Back on the Map

Despite the great strides the North has made toward an embedded peace, people from nationalist and unionist communities live largely parallel lives, following their own sports, religion, and politics. Brexit is exacerbating these tensions.

October 22, 2019

Why Irish America Is Not Evergreen

At this St. Patrick’s Day, one could be fooled into thinking that the Irish-American community is as robust as ever. But US immigration rules have largely closed the door to new entries, leading inexorably to a “graying” of Irish America.

March 16, 2018

Ireland’s Big Choice

No one on any side of the debate here expected Ireland’s Citizens’ Assembly to vote as liberally as it did on the issue of the constitutional ban on abortion.

October 6, 2017

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