Problem of Northern Ireland
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The following review of Resurgence written by Dr. Robert McNamara, History Lecturer at the University of Ulster, was published by the Irish News on 28 July. It has been reproduced below without comment. A reply will appear in good time: “Catastrophe and Resurgence: The Catholic Predicament in ‘Northern Ireland’ Volumes I and II, by Pat…
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Whilst Nationalist Ireland is bending over backwards to accommodate the great Imperial blood sacrifice of the Battle of the Somme in its historical memory there is no spirit of reciprocity in the DUP toward the Irish democracy. For the DUP the Irish democracy – which had to be established by a war of independence when…
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In the beginning was ‘Northern Ireland’. This weird political concoction was set up in 1920/1 for British Imperial purposes quite apart from any desire to produce a settlement of the national division on the island and “the better government of Ireland”. The detachment of the 6 Counties from the rest of the island and their…
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Friday 24 June 2016 7:30 pm Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre 45/47 Donegall Street BT1 2FG (Cathedral Quarter) The Catholic Predicament in ‘Northern Ireland’ Volume Two Resurgence 1969-2016 Author: Dr Pat Walsh Chair: Mark Langhammer Belfast Historical & Educational Society http://www.atholbooks-sales.org Contact: David Morrison davidjtmorrison@hotmail.com
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The opening shots in the Liberal Irish Home Rule campaign were fired by Winston Churchill in West Belfast in February 1912. Churchill’s visit to Belfast seems to have been motivated by a desire to argue the Imperial case for Home Rule in Ulster. But like a lot of other things Churchill did in his political…
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Stormont now has an opposition as it had as a result of the Sean Lemass/T.K. Whittaker innovation in the 1960s. That innovation led to War. But it didn’t stop the Nationalists attempting to give it another try, post August-1969. And that certainly did not halt the War. Below is an extract from ‘Resurgence’ that describes…
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Cromwell famously said to the Long Parliament when he thought it was no longer fit to conduct the affairs of the nation: “You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!” Leopold Amery repeated the…
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Fergal Keane, BBC Special Correspondent, Order of the British Empire, makes a living sneering for Britain. Anyone who has watched his Story of Ireland video will know what I mean. Every few sentences of his narration contains a sneer against the Irish and their history. It would perhaps be condemned as racism if read by…
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Is Republicanism the same thing as Anti-Partitionism? Does a detour, on the way to ending Partition, mean the end of Republicanism? Anti-Provo Republican Dissidents think that it does and now it seems others are following. In the last few weeks Gerry Adams equated Republicanism with simple Anti-Partitionism in trying to minimise the West Belfast vote for…
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Here is a further selection from the final chapter of ‘Resurgence’ (due for publication soon). It deals with the retreat of Peter Robinson from 2013 to 2015 as Ulster Unionism becomes increasingly unsettled by the consequences of 1998: The settlement made on Good Friday 1998 has come under attack due to the discomfort of Unionism…
