Northern Ireland 
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SOURCE: The Guardian
10/6/2022
United Ireland "Closer Now than it's Ever Been"
Both demographic change in the North and shifts in United Kingdom politics have made Irish reunification a reasonable possibility to discuss.
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SOURCE: The Baffler
8/16/2022
Smuggled Recordings Revealed the Harshness of British Internment Policies in Northern Ireland
by Jack Sheehan
Tapes secretly recorded in the Long Kesh internment facility, where suspected IRA militants were detained without trial, revealed the degree to which the British government discarded human rights in its crackdown and speak to today's "states of exception."
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SOURCE: The Conversation
2/10/2022
Hunger Strikes are Powerful Stands Against Injustice
by Nayan Shah
The hunger strike is a potent tool of resistance when the balance of formal power is highly unequal.
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1/30/2022
At 50th Anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" Peace Feels Less Certain
by Mark Holan
A hometown headline 50 years ago introduced the author to the Troubles in Northern Ireland; at the anniversary of Derry's "Bloody Sunday" a hard-won peace feels precarious.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
12/8/2021
How the Black Country Star Charley Pride Became an Unlikely Hero in Northern Ireland's Troubles
by Walker Mimms
Pride's "Crystal Chandeliers" didn't chart when he released in in the US in 1967; a decade later it was a unity anthem for Northern Ireland residents hoping for peace.
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SOURCE: Irish Times
11/26/2021
Can an Official Government Account of Northern Ireland's Troubles be Credible?
"What is needed is not “official” history, but a decision to properly open sensitive archival material to facilitate the writing of evidence-based history. The political will to facilitate that is highly unlikely to materialise."
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6/13/2021
American Conference for Irish Studies Connects the Past, Future of Irish-American Relations
by Mark Holan
The recent virtual American Conference for Irish Studies meeting convened scholars and diplomats to discuss challenges posed by Brexit and opportunities for cooperation between the United States, Northern Ireland, and the Republic.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
4/15/2021
Why the Hope for Peace is Waning in Northern Ireland
by James Waller
"The Troubles, the decades-long Catholic uprising against British rule starting in the 1960s, began with Catholic frustration over a government that would not leave. If widespread violence returns, it will be because of Protestant frustration over a government that would not stay."
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SOURCE: The Hill
1/16/2021
Belfast's Troubles Echo in Today's Washington
by Niall Stanage
The Hill's correspondent argues that the pattern of inciting violence and denying responsibility on display in Washington on January 6 has a grim resemblance to the work of demagogue Ian Paisley during the Northern Ireland Troubles.
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8/23/2020
Mourning Two Civil Rights Heroes Across the Atlantic
by Donald M. Beaudette and Laura Weinstein
As we remember John Hume and John Lewis, we should find inspiration to continue their struggle.
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SOURCE: Irish Times
8/4/2020
Historians Pay Tribute: ‘Today We Live In John Hume’s Ireland, And Thank God For That’
‘His extraordinary impact reflects the exceptional political leader and person he was.’
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/3/2020
John Hume, Nobel Laureate for Work in Northern Ireland, Dies at 83
"In the parlance of Northern Ireland, Mr. Hume was a “nationalist” whose dream of a reunited Ireland had no place for the violence embraced by “republicans” like the I.R.A., with its armed fighters and networks of financiers, bomb-makers and sympathizers in the region and in the United States."
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6/28/2020
The Slow Path to Police Reform in Northern Ireland
by Donald M. Beaudette and Laura Weinstein
It took deep reforms and patience to build trust in policing across the sectarian divide of Northern Ireland after the Good Friday Accords. Does that process have lessons for the United States?
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SOURCE: Washington Post
6/9/2020
What the U.S. Can Learn from the History of Northern Ireland
by Andrew Sanders
British soldiers deployed to Northern Ireland in 1969 in an operation intended to be a temporary action to quell sectarian violence and inflammatory mob and police attacks on Catholic civil rights advocates. They remained until 2007, a lesson that American politicians should heed.
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3/6/2020
Covering the Troubles in Northern Ireland
by Ron Steinman
I covered the Troubles in Northern Ireland for NBC News for four years, from the summer of 1969 until 1973. Even as a journalist with significant experience covering conflict, I knew I was in for a new ride.
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SOURCE: NYT
10-4-18
50 Years Later, Troubles Still Cast ‘Huge Shadow’ Over Northern Ireland
Decades later, the Troubles “are so burned into our lives that they are part of our DNA,” said Monica McWilliams, a former civil rights marcher, peace activist and feminist leader.
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3-16-17
This St. Patrick’s Day Let’s Remember Northern Ireland, too
by Steven Knipp
Most Americans come from Northern Ireland including Ulysses Grant and Stonewall Jackson.
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SOURCE: Irish Central
9-13-13
Irish government no comment as historian queries relationship with the IRA
Lord Paul Bew suggested that Dublin conduct its own investigation into its relationship with the IRA.
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SOURCE: BBC News
8-1-13
Confidential files give insight into Margaret Thatcher's view of Northern Ireland
Previously confidential files from 1983 released on Thursday by the National Archives in Kew shed new light on the ongoing attempts by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to deal with the political and security situations in Northern Ireland and, in particular, the threat by Sinn Féin to overtake the SDLP as the voice of Northern nationalism.Sinn Féin's record 13.4% of the regional vote in the June 1983 election and the return of its President, Gerry Adams, as MP for West Belfast came as a shattering blow to Mrs Thatcher, who had returned to power with a renewed mandate after the Falklands war.Ministers believed that up to a quarter of the Sinn Féin vote was down to impersonation and intimidation.At a cabinet meeting in June that year, Northern Ireland Secretary Jim Prior warned colleagues that the republicans' success could lead to the destruction of John Hume's SDLP....
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SOURCE: Telegraph (UK)
5-6-13
Northern Ireland peace agreement flawed and elitist, says historian
The Good Friday Agreement is "flawed and elitist" but will not be derailed by the forthcoming 1916 commemorations or the threat from dissidents, according to historian Professor Paul Bew.The Queen's University academic told the 20th annual Burren Law School in Co Clare that the Agreement "ended the Cold War" within the Island of Ireland."The Good Friday Agreement was an elitist, top down process which explains its inadequacies but also explains why it continues to work," said Prof Bew. "This (the Agreement) is a stable process... it is perfectly clear what the rules of the game are."...
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