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For Northern Ireland: Parity of esteem and reconciliation

Professor Peter SHIRLOW (Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool). Lecture: For Northern Ireland: Parity of Esteem and Reconciliation. Feile Festival. St Mary's University College, Belfast, Northern Ireland. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster

For Northern Ireland: Parity of esteem and reconciliation
by Allan LEONARD for Shared Future News
1 August 2019

As part of the 31st annual Féile festival, Jim Gibney (a member of the Féile Debates and Discussions Committee) welcomed the audience of a couple dozen attendees of a panel discussion on what parity of esteem, reconciliation, and mutual respect means from those who are pro-Union. The panellists were Professor Peter Shirlow (Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool), Dr James Wilson (Initiative for Civic Space), Alison Grundle (Initiative for Civic Space), and Terry Wright (a civic unionist commentator).

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Post-Agreement identity narratives: A photographic essay

It won't always be like this. Mural in tribute to Lyra McKee. Kent Street, Belfast.

The 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement gives legal recognition to the coexisting and overlapping national citizenships in Northern Ireland, entitling those born in the jurisdiction to be British, Irish, or both. The devolved administration codifies the traditional political identities of “Unionist” and “Nationalist”, as well as an opportunity for “Others”. The accord has also pledged greater protections for human rights and a development of equality for all.

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The end of Catholic Ireland?

The end of Catholic Ireland? 
by Allan LEONARD
6 November 2018

In what Alan Meban described the event as a symposium (“but don’t say it was in a bar” [The Dark Horse Inn]), Dr Gladys Ganiel, a sociologist of religion from Queen’s University Belfast, laid out quantitative and qualitative findings about the apparent secularisation process in Ireland. This was discussed by fellow panellists Pádraig Ó Tuama (poet, theologian and leader of Corrymeela) and Professor Margaret O’Callaghan (historian, Queen’s University Belfast). The event was part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science and hosted by Slugger O’Toole.

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@NorthernSlant Essays Photography

Book review: Bobby Sands by Yan MORVAN

Book cover for Bobby Sands by Yan MORVAN

Book review: Bobby Sands by Yan MORVAN
by Allan LEONARD
11 October 2018

Sorj Chalandon ends his foreword with a question from Bobby Sands’ memorial card: “Will tomorrow be remembered?” He is with Bobby Sands, a photobook by Yan Morvan.

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Earning trust “story by story”

Symposium: Can we believe the media? The role of journalism in the digital age. Ulster University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster

Earning trust “story by story”:
Can we believe the media? The role of journalism in the digital age
by Allan LEONARD for FactCheckNI
4 October 2018

Ulster University — along with the UK press regulatory body, Impress, and the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) — jointly hosted a symposium event at its Belfast campus: “Can we believe the media? The role of journalism in the digital age”. Keynote speakers were Jonathan Heawood (Chief Executive Officer, Impress) and Peter Feeney (Press Ombudsman, Press Council of Ireland).

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The Lost Moment exhibition: The provocation of 1968

Sack Adolf Craig. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster

The Lost Moment exhibition: The provocation of 1968
by Allan LEONARD
27 September 2018

In the year 1968, there were street protests and marches in Belfast, Berlin, Derry-Londonderry, Paris, Prague, Selma and beyond. Some of the most powerful captured images and video clips are on display at The Lost Moment exhibition at the Gallery of Photography Ireland. On the day of its launch there was a two-part symposium on the topic of “Civil Rights: Then and Now”.

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Developing respect in our politics: Leaders’ debate @FeileBelfast

Mark CARRUTHERS. Leaders' Debate, Féile Belfast, St Mary's University College, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Developing respect in our politics: Leaders’ debate @FeileBelfast
by Allan LEONARD for Shared Future News
8 August 2018

The high level of respect displayed by the audience and speakers at St Mary’s University College for a leaders’ debate organised by Féile Belfast belied that of the current political situation in Northern Ireland.

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“To change the riverflow of history”: Constitutional pasts and futures @UCDdublin #GFA20

Bertie AHERN. @UCDdublin (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster

“To change the riverflow of history”: Constitutional pasts and futures @UCDdublin #GFA20
by Allan LEONARD for Shared Future News
8 May 2018

Political and legal scholars, peacemakers and peacebuilders convened at the Royal Irish Academy to review and discuss potential constitutional relationships between Ireland and the United Kingdom, especially vis-a-vis Northern Ireland and the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and the import of Brexit.

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Ephemera to direct our future: Introduction to the Peter Moloney Collection

Poster 1683. (c) Peter MOLONEY @PeterMoloneyCol

Ephemera to direct our future: Introduction to the Peter Moloney Collection
by Allan LEONARD
10 April 2018

Peter Moloney, who collected Troubles-related ephemera for over 50 years, presented a personal lecture on how it began, why he decided to donate it all to the Tower Museum, and how he’ll keep on collecting.

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Coming to terms with our interdependencies #GFA20

Thrown by F. DELVENTHAL CC BY-NC https://www.flickr.com/photos/krossbow/10224139016/

Coming to terms with our interdependencies #GFA20
by Allan LEONARD
10 April 2018

On the 20th anniversary of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, it is easy to neglect the peace process that preceded it. My reference point is the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement, because I learned about the efforts of then Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald the year before, from a magazine article that I read in a local library in my rural hometown in Ohio. I knew then that what he was working on was important.

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Using our past better: Launch of Divided Society

Using our past better: Launch of Divided Society
by Allan LEONARD for Shared Future News
22 January 2018

Twenty and two years in the making, the Linen Hall Library launched its website, Divided Society, which features documentary material in its Northern Ireland Political Collection, of the peace process during the 1990s, with over 500 journal titles available.

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Photo Detectives: An exhibition of community-researched Irish photo history

Photo Detectives exhibition. National Library of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.

Photo Detectives: An exhibition of community-researched Irish photo history
by Allan LEONARD
6 January 2018

Photo Detectives is an exhibition by the National Library of Ireland (NLI) at its National Photographic Archive site in Dublin, of a set of archive images that online Flickr users have assisted with research and providing illuminating further information.

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