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Published in: openDemocracyUKRegarding the arrest of Gerry Adams
In Northern Ireland, the the arrest of Gerry Adams highlights the tensions between justice and peace.
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Published in: 50.50Why are the hopes of the Good Friday Peace Agreement still unfulfilled?
At the launch of 50.50's series on women peacebuilders in Northern Ireland, we explore the connection between the...
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Published in: openSecurityAdams: peacemaker or paramilitary?
The arrest of the decades-long leader of the 'republican movement' in Northern Ireland, Gerry Adams, has provoked...
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Published in: TransformationBenefits Street: how austerity transformed makeover TV
Benefits Street was born from coalition government rhetoric: no one should receive 'anything for nothing'. The...
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Published in: Participation NowInsider knowledge
While the literal meaning of utopia is ‘no place’, an OU-topia could be almost any place. Even when physically...
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Published in: TransformationWe need to talk about the UK media war on women
While Dylan Farrow's child abuse allegations against Woody Allen hold the headlines, it is time for journalists to...
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Published in: HomeDerry on the 42nd anniversary of Bloody Sunday
It is a good time to reflect on how the City of Culture in Derry, the cradle of political creativity in the 1960’s,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?What can the case for Scottish Independence learn from the Irish example?
The nationalist movement developed in the two countries at about the same time, in the late nineteenth century,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe many languages native to Britain
There are around seventeen languages native to the UK. Some are on the verge of extinction. Much more should be done...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe unions of the United Kingdom are changing
The independence referendum in Scotland means a new relationship for all four countries currently in the UK, and the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNothing ever happens in Northern Ireland?
Austerity, flags and stagnant parties - Lorcan Mullen updates the rest of the UK on what's been happening in...
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Published in: HomeSerial killers/The Fall
We need a good reason to watch the stalking and slaughter of women, endlessly. And for this reviewer, Alan Cubitt...
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Published in: HomeAfter 'The Fall'
The BBC needs to make a principled shift of resources in its drama offerings; less than it has spent in recent years...
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Published in: 50.50Excluded and silenced: Women in Northern Ireland after the peace process
There is a backlash against women’s agency in Northern Ireland in a number of different ways, all of which impact on...
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Published in: HomeRe-imagining Israel as a diaspora for all
Judith Butler pursues a similar path to Hannah Arendt in her recent book Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKRepublican Youth and generational change in Northern Ireland
Young, post-conflict republicans, and the radical Óige Phoblactach, may hold the key to meaningful reconciliation...
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Published in: openSecurityJoycean nightmares, Parnellite politics, and the Northern Irish riots
Attributing the violence associated with Northern Ireland's 'flag riots' to the peace process itself is a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCauses of the Northern Ireland flag dispute
A decision to restrict the flying of the union flag over Belfast City Hall late last year sparked weeks of protests...
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Published in: HomeCross-talk and mermaid-speak
Anyone familiar with the story of language in Elizabethan Ireland can only feel impatience – if not despair – at the...
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Published in: HomeNo Passports
Complexity needs a voice (this also applies to newer emigrant groups on both islands). Politics and autobiography,...