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Media guidelines potential remedy for damaging past reportage
Media guidelines potential remedy for damaging past reportage by Allan LEONARD for Shared Future News 5 March 2019 The project team of “Victims and Dealing with the Past” at Queen’s University Belfast hosted a launch event of two complementary media guideline publications: one for victims and survivors of the Northern Ireland conflict on how to […]
Book review: Don’t Mention the War (Vicky COSSTICK)
Book review: Don’t Mention the War (Vicky COSSTICK) by Allan LEONARD 5 March 2019 Don’t Mention the War is an e-book by Vicky Cosstick, published by ChangeAware in association with Northern Slant, that aims to explore aspects of legacy of the Troubles in Northern Ireland in a set of five chapters covering the peace process, women’s […]
Stephen NOLAN: Enhancing democratic debate in the era of fake news?
Stephen NOLAN: Enhancing democratic debate in the era of fake news? by Allan LEONARD 26 February 2019 As part of their engagement programme, Queen’s University Belfast hosted a lecture by radio and television personality, Stephen Nolan, who was introduced by Ryan Feeney. Much of Nolan’s lecture was an autobiography of how he has developed his […]
There must be something to sectarianism
Ian Sample, in his article, “Tests of faith” (24/2/2005), cites Pascal Boyer, an anthropologist turned psychologist at Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, as saying that the persistence of religious belief into adulthood is in part down to a presumption: “When you’re in a belief system, it’s not that you stop asking questions, it’s that they […]
