Ruth Dudley Edwards to join the News Letter as a regular columnist

Dr Dudley Edwards is author of The Faithful Tribe: An Intimate Portrait of the Loyal Institutions and Aftermath: the Omagh Bombing and the Families’ Pursuit of Justice. Her most recent book is The Seven: The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic.

She is a also a writer of satirical crime fiction.

Ruth, who was born and brought up in Dublin and studied at University College in the city (UCD), has often written about how she came to question Catholicism and Irish nationalism.

Living in London, she is an explicit critic of terrorism and in recent years has become a strong supporter of Brexit.

“I came to know and like a lot of unionists over the decades and to see their point of view and write about it,” she says.

Ruth has written for UK-wide publications, as well as for titles in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

Alistair Bushe, the News Letter editor, said: “We are delighted to have such a thought-provoking and readable and brave writer as Ruth join us a columnist.

“She is one of the most important voices on these islands, so we are looking forward to her articles — which start this very Tuesday and weekly on that day thereafter.”

Ruth Dudley Edwards joins the News Letter, the oldest English language daily newspaper in the world, as we continue to produce a thriving daily print edition — which on Wednesdays and Saturdays is a bumper edition with Farming Life — and when our digital audience grows ever upwards.

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