Irish history

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• 9/12/2021
  

  Memo From Irish History: Welcome to Your Future, American Women

  by Laura Weinstein

  After sustained public outcry, the Republic of Ireland looked to its history of horrific treatment and preventable death of girls and women under its draconian abortion laws and said "enough." Will this example change the course American states like Texas are poised to follow? 

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• 9/5/2021
  

  Review: Heroes of Ireland's Great Hunger

  by Alan J. Singer

  Christine Kinealy and her co-editors enlist top scholars from both sides of the Atlantic to highlight the stories of individuals and who led efforts for hunger relief against the opposition of the British government. 

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• 7/25/2021
  

  Explaining the Different Post-Colonial Trajectories of Ireland and Haiti

  by Alan J. Singer

  "The divergent paths of Haiti and Ireland are rooted in the history of 19th century European colonialism, European and American racism, and the very different alternatives offered to the people of the former colonies for the last two hundred plus years."

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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: Irish Times
  5/24/2021
  

  Execution of 13 IRA volunteers in 1921 may have been a war crime, says UCC historian

  "Men should have been treated as prisoners of war, according to historian Gabriel Doherty of University College Cork."

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  5/5/2021
  

  Except for the Miracles

  by Olúfémi Táíwò

  "The deciding aspect of politics over these next crucial years will turn on battles against overwhelmingly powerful foes who will try to prevent radical redistribution of resources," writes Olúfémi Táíwò. The legacy of two radicals, in Ireland and Kenya, show the value of partial victory and learning from defeat. 

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• SOURCE: Times (UK)
  4/26/2021
  

  JFK Saw Irish Language Revival as ‘A Waste of National Efforts’

  Though his election created great enthusiasm in Ireland, John F. Kennedy did not agree with the cultural nationalist project of reviving the Irish language that was dear to Irish leader Eamon De Valera. 

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• SOURCE: RTE
  3/15/2021
  

  Why Irish Revolutionaries Had to Go Global

  by Brian Hanley

  Irish republicans advanced their cause by association with the rising tide of anti-imperialism and the endorsement of national self-determination by Woodrow Wilson, as well as a promiscuous set of alliances with Black nationalists like Marcus Garvey and the new Italian fascist movement.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  3/7/2021
  

  Trinity College Reckons with Slavery Links as Ireland Confronts Collusion with Empire

  Dublin's Trinity College is undertaking a review of its institutional ties to slavery, a project that involves acknowledging the participation of Irish merchants in the Atlantic slave trade. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  2/11/2021
  

  Empire Shaped Ireland's Past. A Century After Partition, It Still Shapes Our Present

  by Michael D. Higgins

  The Irish President argues for a full reckoning with the difficult aspects of imperialism and sectarian violence in Ireland's history, by recognizing that a singular unifying narrative is an impossibility. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  

  Irish President Attacks 'Feigned Amnesia' over British Imperialism

  “I am struck by a disinclination,” he says, “in both academic and journalistic accounts to critique empire and imperialism. Openness to, and engagement in, a critique of nationalism has seemed greater.

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• SOURCE: Irish Times
  11/16/2020
  

  Bloody Sunday, 1920: Too Many Historians Spoil the Doc

  A documentary on a 1920 massacre of Irish sporting spectators in retaliation for the killing of British intelligence officers suffers from having too many talking heads in too short a running time, says a reviewer. 

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• SOURCE: her
  9/23/2020
  

  New Documentary Sheds Light on Hidden Sexual Violence of the Irish Revolution

  Documentarian Ciara Hyland draws on historical research to examine the suppressed stories of sexual violence against women that pervaded all sides of the Irish war for independence. 

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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: Irish Central
  3/30/2020
  

  Irish Emigrants Tale Told Through Tenement Museum of New York

  Hidden away in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the New York Tenement Museum tells the tale of thousands of Irish families that sailed from Ireland to the United States in search of a better life.

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• SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  10/24/19
  

  Obituary: David William Miller / CMU history professor, expert on Ireland

  During the early 1960s — an intense period of racial strife in the South — the Millers were arrested and jailed after protesting segregation at the lunch counter of a railroad station in Houston.

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• 7/28/19
  

  History is a Verb, Something You Do: An Interview with Mark Doyle

  by Erik Moshe

  “History can help us understand the structural forces that foster suspicion, prejudice, resentment, and violence, and once we understand those forces we can begin to make better choices not just about how we live our own lives, but how we order our societies.”

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• SOURCE: Salon
  3/17/19
  

  On St. Patrick's Day, remember how anti-immigrant history repeats itself

  33 million Americans claim Irish heritage and yet we have not learned from 19th century nativism. 

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• SOURCE: The Northern Echo (UK)
  

  Historian presents prize-winning book to Irish president

  Teesside University senior lecturer Dr Roisin Higgins's "Transforming 1916" won the ACIS James Donnelly Senior prize in 2012.