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Author: Anthony Kenny Publisher: Pergamon ISBN: 9780080342481 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 141
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On 15 November 1985 at Hillsborough Castle the Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland signed an agreement which will determine the future of Northern Ireland. This book seeks to explain its significance, drawing together the historical strands from the reign of Elizabeth\I and pointing to its political implications. In particular, the author examines the constitutional proposals and initiatives which preceded the pact and explains why the majority of those most closely affected regard it as an insult and an outrage. The author writes in a clear, informative way for all those seeking a deeper understanding of events in Northern Ireland today.
Author: Arwel Ellis Owen Publisher: ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 282
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A knowledgeable, readable and objective discussion of one of the most violent and disturbed periods in the recent history of Northern Ireland. On 15 November 1985 Margaret Thatcher and Garret FitzGerald signed the Anglo-Irish Agreement at Hillsborough Castle. The Agreement, which was to be reviewed at the end of three years, dramatically changed the tone of everyday life in Northern Ireland and substantially altered the mood of Anglo-Irish affairs. It gave rise to intense political debate and paramilitary violence escalated. Far from finding a solution to the problems of Ulster, the Agreement itself became a contentious issue. In this detailed, thorough and impressive study, Arwel Ellis Owen, who was appointed Head of Programmes, BBC Northern Ireland in May 1985 and lived in the province until his election as Guardian Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, in October 1988, analyses the impact of the Agreement on the three principal participants in the affair: the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and the Province of Northern Ireland. He combines solid narrative with insight and inside knowledge, particularly in his discussion of such controversial incidents as the Stalker affair, the Gibraltar shootings and the Hume-Adams talks. He also gives unique insight into how ordinary Ulster folk reacted to: political drama (in Harland and Wolf and Derry Council estates), personal tragedy (intimidation, death and grieving), Individuals' ability to forgive (to try the impossible of bridging the cultural gap), the price paid.
Author: Sean Farren Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 278
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For generations in Northern Ireland, unionist and nationalist communities have been frozen in isolation from one another, preferring demonstrations of communal solidarity to negotiation and cooperation. This absorbing book examines the many attempts to resolve the conflict in Northern Ireland, beginning with the civil rights movement and Prime Minister Terence O'Neill's reform efforts in the mid-1960's, continuing up to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. It finds that early attempts at peacemaking suggested only mechanical political solutions, which only deepened the antagonistic pattern of relationships. It was not until these existing relationships were challenged, most crucially through the Anglo-Irish agreement of 1985 and subsequent initiatives jointly determined by the British and Irish governments, that the main parties began to participate in efforts to create a democratic peace. The authors contend that a political and cultural process is now in motion that gives peace its first real chance in Northern Ireland's history.
Author: Anthony Kenny Publisher: Pergamon ISBN: 9780080342481 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 141
Book Description
On 15 November 1985 at Hillsborough Castle the Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland signed an agreement which will determine the future of Northern Ireland. This book seeks to explain its significance, drawing together the historical strands from the reign of Elizabeth\I and pointing to its political implications. In particular, the author examines the constitutional proposals and initiatives which preceded the pact and explains why the majority of those most closely affected regard it as an insult and an outrage. The author writes in a clear, informative way for all those seeking a deeper understanding of events in Northern Ireland today.
Author: Graham Spencer Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 1526142538 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 425
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Volume one of the most authoritative and revealing account yet of how the Irish Government managed the Northern Ireland peace process and helped broker a political settlement to end the conflict there. Based on eight extended interviews with key officials and political leaders, this book provides a compelling picture of how the peace process was created and how it came to be successful. Covering areas such as informal negotiation, text and context, strategy, working with British and American Governments, and offering perceptions of other players involved in the dialogue and negotiations that led to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 and the power-sharing arrangements that followed, this dramatic account will become a major source for academics and interested readers alike for years to come. Volume one deals with the Irish Government and Sunningdale (1973) and the Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985) and Volume two on the Good Friday Agreement (1998) and beyond.
Author: Frank Sheridan Publisher: ISBN: 9780901510877 Category : Languages : en Pages : 244
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The present volume contains a collection of essays to honour the enormous contribution by Professor Padraig A. Breatnach to learning in a diverse range of fields including Medieval Latin, Early Modern Irish, palaeography, literary history, eighteenth-century verse, and Modern Irish literature and language. The contributors engage with written material relating to early, medieval and modern Irish as well as with oral traditions in Gaelic-speaking areas of Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man. Cnuasach aisti ata curtha ar fail anseo in omos don Ollamh Padraig A. Breatnach, fear a bhfuil 'lorg na leabhar' go trom ar a chuid scolaireachta. Cuimsionn an t-abhar fein foinsi scriofa na Gaeilge on luathre anall go dti an treimhse chomhaimseartha chomh maith le foinsí beil Ghaeilge na hEireann, na hAlban agus Oilean Mhanann.
Author: Brendan O'Duffy Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 294
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This book examines the evolution of British - Irish relations since 1921 and applies theories from political and social sciences, including international relations to the Irish/Northern Irish case. The book includes the generation and analysis of primary data on violence and constitutional debate; the analysis of primary sources such as state papers; and elite interviews with British and Irish officials, representatives of constitutional political parties in Northern Ireland, and leaders and activists of republican and loyalist parties/organisations. Part 1 looks at how the attempt to regulate the Irish nationalist challenge to the British state (through dominion status for the Irish Free State and partition) impacted on governance in both jurisdictions. The re-opening of the (Northern) Irish Question in the late 1960s is then analysed to demonstrate the continued primacy of opposing claims to national self-determination and their impact on subsidiary levels of conflict. The final part, covering the year 1985 to the present, then demonstrates how the relative equalization of national status, reflected in the bi-national, inter-governmental relationship, has been successful in regulating conflict by integrating vertically the bi-nationality at state, governmental, and societal levels. Finally, implications of the British-Irish approach are developed as contributions to the comparative theory and practice of ethno-national conflict regulation. Ã?Â?Ã?Â?
Author: Marc Mulholland Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0198825005 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 153
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From the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century to the entry into peace talks in the late twentieth century the Northern Irish people have been engaged in conflict - Catholic against Protestant, Republican against Unionist. The traumas of violence in the Northern Ireland Troubles have cast a long shadow. For many years, this appeared to be an intractable conflict with no pathway out. Mass mobilisations of people and dramatic political crises punctuated a seemingly endless succession of bloodshed. When in the 1990s and early 21st century, peace was painfully built, it brought together unlikely rivals, making Northern Ireland a model for conflict resolution internationally. But disagreement about the future of the province remains, and for the first time in decades one can now seriously speak of a democratic end to the Union between Northern Ireland and Great Britain as a foreseeable possibility. The Northern Ireland problem remains a fundamental issue as the United Kingdom recasts its relationship with Europe and the world. In this completely revised edition of his Very Short Introduction Marc Mulholland explores the pivotal moments in Northern Irish history - the rise of republicanism in the 1800s, Home Rule and the civil rights movement, the growth of Sinn Fein and the provisional IRA, and the DUP, before bringing the story up to date, drawing on newly available memoirs by paramilitary militants to offer previously unexplored perspectives, as well as recent work on Nothern Irish gender relations. Mulholland also includes a new chapter on the state of affairs in 21st Century Northern Ireland, considering the question of Irish unity in the light of both Brexit and the approaching anniversary of the 1921 partition, and drawing new lessons for the future. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author: John Coakley Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317671961 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 191
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External powers commonly play a major role in efforts to break patterns of conflict and to instal stable and durable peace settlements. They do this not just by underwriting security arrangements, but also by being available to intervene at critical moments. This book considers the special (but by no means unique) case where the conflict is located in a region of one state over which a neighbouring state has had a territorial claim, itself part of the legacy of a quasi-colonial relationship: Northern Ireland. This book focuses on the changes in the British state, whose writ of course extends over Northern Ireland, but also the Irish state, which surrendered a strong formal but ineffective claim to jurisdiction over Northern Ireland for the reality of a significant voice in its political future. These were ultimately to facilitate the process of settlement leading to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, and the later transformation of institutions and political relations in Northern Ireland and in these islands more generally. It innovates by using a new oral archive built up over the past decade. The book explores the interrelations of different levels of state and institutional change. These interrelations range from the broadest concepts of sovereignty and ideology to the actual impact of large changes on particular institutions and laws. They also extend over elite political assumptions and strategies, and inter-state coordination practices. This book was published as a special issue of Irish Political Studies.
Author: Anthony Kenny
Author: Anthony Coughlan
Author: Arwel Ellis Owen
Author: Sean Farren
Author: Anthony Kenny
Author: Graham Spencer
Author: James Francis Heaney
Author: Frank Sheridan
Author: Brendan O'Duffy
Author: Marc Mulholland
Author: John Coakley