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A United Ireland Is in ‘Touching Distance’ as Sinn Féin Takes Power in the North and Hails a ‘New Dispensation’  

A storm is brewing, though, over whether the party’s leadership, sympathetic with the Palestinian Arabs, will visit the White House for St. Patrick’s Day.

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Sinn Fein's president, Mary Lou McDonald, makes her leader's speech during the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis on November at Athlone, Ireland. Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images
A.R. HOFFMAN
A.R. HOFFMAN

The breaking of the logjam at Stormont, Northern Ireland’s devolved parliament, puts a united Ireland — a long-deferred dream for some, and a dreaded nightmare for others — closer to consummation than it has been since the founding of the Republic.

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A.R. HOFFMAN
A.R. HOFFMAN

Mr. Hoffman is an associate editor of the Sun, where he covers politics and culture. He holds a PhD from Harvard and a law degree from Stanford.

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