The Bumpf blogger watched Gerry Adams on RTE Network 2 and was not impressed at what he saw as “bubble gum propaganda”. The Europhobia blogger has a similar take. Richard Delevan had the headline of the day: IRA gives itself a punishment beating. P O’Neill wonders if public opinion has gotten at least some of the IRA’s motivation wrong!
Is the best way to overcome the legacy of conflict simply to forget about it? Author and journalist David Rieff spoke on this subject last week in a seminar at the Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS) at Trinity College Dublin. Rieff has recently written a book titled, Against Remembrance (published in Ireland by Liffey [...] read our review »
Northern Ireland’s peace process has been promoted as an international success story. The Republic’s Department of Foreign Affairs has its Conflict Resolution Unit, which aims to disseminate the ‘lessons’ of the Northern Ireland peace process. And some of the prominent players in our peace process have travelled abroad to other troubled spots to share their [...] read our review »