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New Post on Slugger O’Toole: Book Review of Douglas Murray’s Bloody Sunday

I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, a book review of Douglas Murray’s book, Bloody Sunday: Truth, Lies and the Saville Inquiry.

New Post on Slugger O’Toole: Time for a Calm Debate on Northern Ireland’s Demographics

I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, “Time for the beginning of a calm debate on Northern Ireland’s Demographics.”

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Martyn Frampton Book Review – Legion of the Rearguard: New Post on Slugger O’Toole

I’ve reviewed Martyn Frampton’s new book, Legion of the Rearguard: Dissident Irish Republicanism, on the Slugger O’Toole blog.

Assembly Wants All-Party Talks on Dealing with the Past – New Post on Slugger O’Toole

I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, ‘Assembly Wants All-Party Talks on Dealing with the Past.’

Debating the Past in the Northern Ireland Assembly – New Post on Slugger O’Toole

I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, ‘Debating the Past in the Northern Ireland Assembly?’

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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 a chapter, co-authored with Amber Rankin, on the DUP.

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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 has produced a ‘new electoral agenda,’ which is outlined on my Slugger post.

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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 Spirituality – an International Dialogue.’

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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 for the reasons why some republican groups (such as the Real and Continuity IRAs) continue [...]

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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 Centre in Carlingford, Co. Louth. The Summer School honours the legacy of civil rights leaders [...]