Appendix 2: Historians and Dealing with the Past: The Background Academic analysis of the past has played a part in conflict resolution in a variety of divided societies. In Northern Ireland itself both the Bloody Sunday Inquiry (1998-2010) and the De Silva Report (2012) appointed historical advisers whose role was Continue Reading
Appendix 1
Appendix 1: Participants in the Hertford Workshop on Historians and the Stormont House Agreement, 19 October 2016 Dr Huw Bennett (University of Cardiff). Huw Bennett is Reader in International Relations at Cardiff, where he specialises in security studies. He formerly taught at Aberystwyth University and King’s College London, at the Continue Reading
Report on a Workshop held at Hertford College, Oxford, 19 October 2016
Introduction This report considers the contribution that historians and social scientists can make to the task of ‘dealing with the past’ in Northern Ireland. Specifically, it examines the role of academics as envisaged in the Stormont House Agreement from the perspective of experienced practitioners of the relevant disciplines. The report Continue Reading
Terror at the GPO
By Guy Beiner Twenty years before the Easter Rising, a group of revolutionaries took over a public building in a central city of an imperial power and presented political demands on behalf of the nation that they claimed to represent. The results were catastrophic. The event was the seizure of Continue Reading
Did Constance Markievicz Shoot the Policeman?
By Lauren Arrington No one ever seems to ask whether MacDonagh and MacBride, Connolly and Pearse (never mind de Valera and Collins) happened to fire shots at an unarmed individual, policeman or a. But whether Constance Markievicz shot an unarmed constable at St Stephen’s Green is the question on which Continue Reading