Belfast’s Tinderbox Theatre concluded its series of three ‘Truth North’ productions this weekend. I attended two of the plays, ‘God’s Country’ and ‘Everything Between Us,’ with students on our master’s programme in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation. Kathy Clarke’s review of the productions in Irish Theatre Magazine puts it better than I could, True North, a [...]
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God’s Country: Review of Tinderbox Theatre ‘True North’ Production
Is religion preventing people from the LGBT community living full and happy lives in Northern Ireland? That’s a question at the heart of ‘God’s Country,’ a new play by Colin Bell. The play is part of Tinderbox Theatre’s True North series of three new dramas about life in Northern Ireland today. The play presents a [...]
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 [...]
Ulster Scots & Presbyterianism: Does Denomination Matter?
In response to my recent post, In Search of the Ulster Scot, some people have commented that the Ulster Scots identity and language is not just for Presbyterians. Others have said that the Ulster Scots identity fails to capture the complexity that is present within Protestantism/Unionism in Northern Ireland. Fair enough. But is there a [...]
The News Letter’s Union 2021: Is a New Northern Irish Identity Possible?
The Belfast News Letter’s ‘Union 2021’ series has canvassed a range of unionist and other commentators to assess the state of the union, as it were, and put forward some ideas about making Northern Ireland a better place. Yesterday’s contribution from Stephen Goss, who describes himself as a ‘pro-union Catholic’ from West Belfast, floated the [...]
In Search of the Ulster Scot: Has an Identity Been Manufactured?
Is there any such thing as an Ulster Scot? The emergence of ‘Ulster Scots’ as a language, and as an ethnic group, has been controversial to say the least. Critics have alleged that Ulster Scots is a made-up language, manufactured so that Northern Ireland’s Protestants would have a language and an identity that could compete [...]
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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).
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