A political perspective:
The idea of “northern” nationalism is a questionable one, since the nationalist tradition within Northern Ireland sees itself in an island-wide context. From its origins in the civil rights ...
Millar, Adrian(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2001)
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the power of Lacanian theory to bring to light the unconscious dynamics at work in the formation of ethno-national political identities. I begin by identifying the need for a Lacanian ...
Reid, John; Dorr, Noel(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2001)
One of the lessons to be drawn from the history of Northern Ireland is the need for unionists to be involved in the peace process: unionist opponents of the agreement, however sincere, are only undermining the long term ...
Nic Craith, Máiréad(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2001)
The Good Friday agreement gave an impetus to interest in the issue of cultural di-versity in contemporary Northern Ireland, extending to the issue of smaller language groups, such as Irish and Ulster Scots. While these two ...
Cowan, Brian(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2001)
The Good Friday Agreement represents in an important sense the triumph of politics over darker forces in Irish society. Rather than seeking to define the contours of a final settlement, it lays out the ground rules in ...
A POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE:
Although loyalism in its modern sense has been around since the 1920s, it acquired its present shape only at the beginning of the 1970s. Then it was reborn in paramilitary form, and was used by ...
De Chastelain, John(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2001)
This paper examines the impact that the decommissioning of paramilitary arms has had, and continues to have, on the Northern Ireland peace process. It selects the beginning of the paramilitary group ceasefires in 1994 as ...
Coakley, John(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2001)
The agreement reached between the British and Irish governments and the Northern Irish political parties in April 1998 was a complex and subtle political document that built on experience in other societies and that itself ...