@Andrew_Adonis Wow you've set off a Twitter combustion @Andrew_Adonis . As a peer you'll remember your Home Rule history. Many/most Unionists still believe they have a #NorthernIreland all to their Protestant/exclusive selves w/o re to British modernity or recent #Ireland secularism.
“To change the riverflow of history”: Constitutional pasts and futures
“To change the riverflow of history”: Constitutional pasts and futures by Allan LEONARD 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... Continue Reading →
Ephemera to direct our future: Introduction to the Peter Moloney Collection
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. The negotiation to... Continue Reading →
ARTICLE: Coming to terms with our interdependencies #GFA20 https://mrulster.blog/2018/04/10/coming-to-terms-with-our-interdependencies-gfa20/ @IrishInstitute @freckleni @SharedFuture #sharedfuture #NorthernIreland #Ireland
Coming to terms with our interdependencies #GFA20
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,... Continue Reading →
"Whatever the arguable merits of using violence to gain the Republic of #Ireland its independence, it was never the method to use to unite the two parts of this island": Trevor RINGLAND @trevor4change @SundayBusiness [PAYWALL] https://www.businesspost.ie/opinion/playing-hard-ireland-literally-otherwise-409982
Using our past better: Launch of Divided Society
Using our past better: Launch of Divided Society by Allan LEONARD 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. It is... Continue Reading →
Advert resurrection. Buncrana, Co. Donegal, #Ireland. MrUlster 20170219 Donegal https://ello.co/mrulster/post/od4keevl4c_glxz-wb4guq #photography #streetphotography
ARTICLE: My latest #NorthernLens contribution @NorthernSlant re community-researched Irish photo history. Clever way to encourage engagement and bring #archives to life. #photography #Ireland #NorthernIreland https://x.com/NorthernSlant/status/951077324010786816
Photo Detectives: An exhibition of community-researched Irish photo history
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. The... Continue Reading →
Vertical and ventilating Me: How are you today? …
Vertical and ventilating Me: How are you today? Coleman: Vertical and ventilating. —Coleman, The Cuan, Strangford #tumblr