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Tag Archives: Northern Ireland
Feb 1 2013
To understand the present troubles in Belfast, we need to go back to the dying days of the old ‘Orange State’
Leave a commentTweet The disturbances prompted by Belfast City Council’s decision to restrict their flying of the Union flag can seem bewildering to outsiders. However Eric Kaufmann argues that they make sense within the broader historical context, as the dismantling of a centuries old tradition has come … Continue reading
Posted by: February 1, 2013
Tagged with: Belfast, Northern Ireland, peace process, peacebuilding
Jan 30 2013
Is the Northern Ireland Peace Process Flagging?
2 CommentsTweet Recent disturbances in Belfast naturally invite questions as to how this is grounded in a longer history of conflict within Northern Ireland. Jim Hughes explains how the current social strife is deeply rooted in the past but is also a product of profound … Continue reading
Posted by: January 30, 2013
Tagged with: Belfast, identity, Northern Ireland, peace process, peacebuilding
Jul 30 2012
Transition to peace leaves children of the Northern Irish Troubles more vulnerable to suicide
Leave a commentTweet Northern Ireland’s suicide rate has doubled since the Good Friday Agreement. Michael Tomlinson explains that the toxic mix of greater political stability and increasing social isolation is putting those born into the Troubles at much greater risk of suicide … Continue reading
Posted by: July 30, 2012
Tagged with: mental health, Northern Ireland
Mar 25 2012
Book Review: Youth Policy, Civil Society and the Modern Irish state by Fred Powell et al.
Leave a commentTweet Exploring the development of youth policy and youth work in Ireland from the mid-19th century to the present day, authors Fred Powell et al. provide a strong account of policy changes and facilities made available for young people over the … Continue reading
Posted by: March 25, 2012
Tagged with: Celtic Tiger, children, civil society, Europe, identity politics, Ireland, national identity, nationalism, Northern Ireland, The Troubles, young people, youth policy
Mar 18 2012
Book Review: A History of the Northern Ireland Labour Party: Democratic Socialism and Sectarianism by Aaron Edwards
Leave a commentTweet Aaron Edwards presents a highly readable account of the Northern Ireland Labour Party. Jon Tonge believes this to be a model study of the party’s successes and lows, weaving interviews with former party members with detailed archival trawls. A History … Continue reading
Posted by: March 18, 2012
Tagged with: civil rights, elections, IRA, Ireland, Labour, NILP, Northern Ireland, Westminster
Jan 30 2012
Bloody Sunday is almost universally recognised as ‘unjustified and unjustifiable’. But lessons must be drawn for peace in Northern Ireland, and for counterinsurgency more generally
1 CommentTweet Jim Hughes writes that the events of Bloody Sunday and the ‘shock’ of concentrated violence in the early phase of the Northern Ireland conflict reverberated and shaped the conflict for the following decades. However, the violence also led to … Continue reading
Posted by: January 30, 2012
Tagged with: Good Friday Agreement, Northern Ireland, uk government, uk politics
Jan 29 2012
Book Review: Outside In by Peter Hain
Leave a commentTweet Former anti-apartheid leader turned Labour cabinet minister Peter Hain reflects on his early campaigning days, being prosecuted in two political trials and his role in negotiating the historic 2007 settlement in Northern Ireland. Carl Packman finds it a remarkably honest … Continue reading
Posted by: January 29, 2012
Tagged with: Gordon Brown, Iraq, Labour, nelson mandela, Northern Ireland, party politics, protests, South Africa, terrorism, Tony Blair, violence
Jan 27 2012
Northern Ireland is no country for old idealists but it is certainly a best practice case of consociational democracy and conflict regulation
Leave a commentTweet This weekend marks the commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of Bloody Sunday, which saw 26 people shot by the British army while on a civil rights march in Derry. Michael Kerr finds that the Northern Ireland of today is governed … Continue reading
Posted by: January 27, 2012
Tagged with: conflict resolution, consociational democracy, devolved government, Northern Ireland
