Irish history

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  2/11/2021
  

  Empire Shaped Ireland's Past. A Century After Partition, It Still Shapes Our Present

  by Michael D. Higgins

  The Irish President argues for a full reckoning with the difficult aspects of imperialism and sectarian violence in Ireland's history, by recognizing that a singular unifying narrative is an impossibility. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  

  Irish President Attacks 'Feigned Amnesia' over British Imperialism

  “I am struck by a disinclination,” he says, “in both academic and journalistic accounts to critique empire and imperialism. Openness to, and engagement in, a critique of nationalism has seemed greater.

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• SOURCE: Irish Times
  11/16/2020
  

  Bloody Sunday, 1920: Too Many Historians Spoil the Doc

  A documentary on a 1920 massacre of Irish sporting spectators in retaliation for the killing of British intelligence officers suffers from having too many talking heads in too short a running time, says a reviewer. 

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• SOURCE: her
  9/23/2020
  

  New Documentary Sheds Light on Hidden Sexual Violence of the Irish Revolution

  Documentarian Ciara Hyland draws on historical research to examine the suppressed stories of sexual violence against women that pervaded all sides of the Irish war for independence. 

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• 8/23/2020
  

  Mourning Two Civil Rights Heroes Across the Atlantic

  by Donald M. Beaudette and Laura Weinstein

  As we remember John Hume and John Lewis, we should find inspiration to continue their struggle.

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• SOURCE: Irish Times
  8/4/2020
  

  Historians Pay Tribute: ‘Today We Live In John Hume’s Ireland, And Thank God For That’

  ‘His extraordinary impact reflects the exceptional political leader and person he was.’

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• SOURCE: Irish Central
  3/30/2020
  

  Irish Emigrants Tale Told Through Tenement Museum of New York

  Hidden away in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the New York Tenement Museum tells the tale of thousands of Irish families that sailed from Ireland to the United States in search of a better life.

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• SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  10/24/19
  

  Obituary: David William Miller / CMU history professor, expert on Ireland

  During the early 1960s — an intense period of racial strife in the South — the Millers were arrested and jailed after protesting segregation at the lunch counter of a railroad station in Houston.

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• 7/28/19
  

  History is a Verb, Something You Do: An Interview with Mark Doyle

  by Erik Moshe

  “History can help us understand the structural forces that foster suspicion, prejudice, resentment, and violence, and once we understand those forces we can begin to make better choices not just about how we live our own lives, but how we order our societies.”

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• SOURCE: Salon
  3/17/19
  

  On St. Patrick's Day, remember how anti-immigrant history repeats itself

  33 million Americans claim Irish heritage and yet we have not learned from 19th century nativism. 

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• SOURCE: The Northern Echo (UK)
  

  Historian presents prize-winning book to Irish president

  Teesside University senior lecturer Dr Roisin Higgins's "Transforming 1916" won the ACIS James Donnelly Senior prize in 2012.

• SOURCE: Irish Independent
  7-30-13
  

  Diarmaid Ferriter: Axing upper house of Irish parliament a 'grubby power grab'

  THE abolition of the Seanad is a "grubby power grab" by a Government that already keeps major economic decision-making within a powerful inner circle, historian Diarmaid Ferriter has claimed.In strident criticisms of the Coalition, Prof Ferriter also said the Economic Management Council (EMC) – the powerful four-member committee that decides all major economic decisions – showed "centralisation and unaccountable elites still dominate" even more than ever.His comments come after Emily O'Reilly, who will soon leave her Ombudsman post to become EU Ombudsman, criticised the Dail for not taking itself seriously, saying it spends its time "ducking and diving"....