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.
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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.
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dealing with the Past, Dealing with the Future? Responses to the Eames-Bradley Report
Secretary of State Owen Paterson has published a summary of the responses to the Eames Bradley Report on dealing with Northern Ireland’s past, revealing an overwhelmingly negative reaction to it. As the unionist newspaper the News Letter puts it, ‘Ulster Rejects Eames Bradley Report on the Troubles.’ So is this just another case of ‘Ulster [...]
Alistair Little Book Review: Give a Boy a Gun
Recently one of the students on my School’s Master’s in Reconciliation Studies programme told me that the most powerful book he had read during the year was Give a Boy a Gun: One Man’s Journey from Killing to Peace-Making, by Alistair Little (Darton, Longman & Todd, 2009). The book is the autobiography of a former [...]
The Dissidents, the Car Bomb, and Policing and Justice
People in Northern Ireland woke up this morning to the news that dissident republicans had detonated a car bomb outside Palace Barracks in Holywood, the headquarters of MI5. The Real IRA claims responsibility for the bomb, designed as a protest against the devolution of policing and justice powers from Westminster to Stormont. An elderly man [...]
Terror in the Skies & Richard English Book Review: Terrorism – How to Respond
The story of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and his plot to bring terror to the American skies has been playing out over this Christmas period. Almost daily revelations of failures to communicate intelligence information, not to mention the apparent ease with which he passed through airport security, have revealed uncomfortable flaws in our systems. So much [...]
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Welcome to Building a Church Without Walls, a website for people who are excited about how Christianity is developing in the 21st Century. I am a Lecturer and Coordinator of the Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation Studies Programme at Trinity College Dublin at Belfast (the Irish School of Ecumenics).
Please note this is my personal site. All views are my own and are not representative of TCD.
