I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, ‘Assembly Wants All-Party Talks on Dealing with the Past.’… Read more...
Category: Sinn Fein
Debating the Past in the Northern Ireland Assembly – New Post on Slugger O’Toole
Do Words Matter? New Post on Slugger O’Toole
I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog: Do Words Matter?: Book Review of Political Discourse and Conflict Resolution – Debating Peace in Northern Ireland. The book is edited by Katy Hayward and Catherine O’Donnell and I contributed … Read more...
Platform for Change Election Hustings Thurs 14 April – New Post on Slugger O’Toole
I have written a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog about tomorrow’s Platform for Change election hustings at the Crescent Arts Centre in Belfast. Platform for Change describes itself ‘the NGO pursuing a new politics in Northern Ireland,’ and … Read more...
Do Acknowledgement & Apology have a Role to Play in Northern Ireland?: New Post on Slugger O’Toole
I have a new post on Slugger O’Toole called, ‘Journey Towards Healing: Do Acknowledgement and Apology have a Role to Play in Northern Ireland?’ It’s the second in a series of posts about the conference, ‘Journey Towards Healing: Trauma and … Read more...
Dissident Republicans: Does Sympathy Equal “Support”?
The results of a survey released yesterday in a conference at Queen’s University Belfast and presented again today at the Annual Meeting of the Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI) in Dublin reveal that 14 % of nationalists ‘had sympathy … Read more...
McCluskey Civil Rights Summer School: Was the ‘Armed Struggle’ Justified?
How might the civil rights campaign in Northern Ireland have developed, had there been no ‘armed struggle?’
That was the theme of the first session of the McCluskey Civil Rights Summer School, held on Saturday 28 August at the Heritage … Read more...
Dealing with the Past, Dealing with the Future? Responses to the Eames-Bradley Report
Secretary of State Owen Paterson has published a summary of the responses to the Eames Bradley Report on dealing with Northern Ireland’s past, revealing an overwhelmingly negative reaction to it.
As the unionist newspaper the News Letter puts it, ‘Ulster … Read more...
Belfast Telegraph Debate on a New Approach to Northern Ireland Politics: Mobilising the Middle Ground?
With the 12th of July almost upon us, people living in Northern Ireland can’t help but notice the familiar sights of bonfires being constructed, freshly painted red-white-and-blue kerbstones, and areas adorned with British, Northern Ireland, and UVF flags.
This … Read more...
The Europeanization of Party Politics in Ireland, Book Launch – Has the EU Encouraged Reconciliatory Politics?
Queen’s University recently hosted the launch of a new book edited by Dr Katy Hayward (Queen’s) and Dr Mary Murphy (University College Cork), The Europeanization of Party Politics in Ireland: North and South (Routledge, 2010). At the launch, some of … Read more...
Peter Robinson, Naomi Long, and the 2010 Westminster Elections: A New Era in Northern Irish Politics?
This morning I had the rather surreal experience of a Benedictine monk greeting me with news of one election result I didn’t expect: the Alliance Party’s Naomi Long had defeated Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader and Northern Ireland First Minister … Read more...