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*This letter will close on 12th March so the signatures can be ordered. You are also encouraged to write to CAIN directly. https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/cainfuture.htm * In filling out this form, you are signing the following letter:

Professor Kristian Lasslett ([email protected]), Head of the School of Applied Social and Policy Sciences, and Dr Martin Melaugh ([email protected]), Director of CAIN [By Email]

12th March 2019

RE: CAIN Consultation

We are writing to protest the reported closure of CAIN as a live Web Service by the University of Ulster. Over the years, we have used this resource with our students and for our academic research and found it invaluable in deepening understanding of the Northern Ireland conflict. For those of us who teach topics relating to Northern Ireland around the world, having a free resource that we can point the next generation of scholars towards has been vitally important in enriching their appreciation of the complex issues at play.

The website also has an importance well beyond academia, and has also provided a vital resource for journalists, policy-makers, community organisations and individuals interested in the of the conflict in Northern Ireland. This archive has been used by scholars across the world, as well as creative writers to enrich their depictions of Northern Ireland during the Troubles. This unique resource, as Goretti Horgan points out in her Belfast Telegraph article, has been accessed 22 million times and cited in more than 2400 academic publications.

At a time when Northern Ireland is at the forefront of contemporary political affairs, the contents of this website are vital to increase knowledge and understanding of the issues surrounding this decades- long conflict. As scholars, teachers and students of Irish Studies, we strongly urge the University of Ulster to reconsider and invest in this hugely important resource.

Dr Caroline Magennis Lecturer in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature Chair of the British Association for Irish Studies Exec/Steering: BAIS, EFACIS, and BACLS Office: Room 202, Crescent House, University of Salford, M5 4WT. Ext: 52706

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Count Timestamp Title (Dr, Prof etc), then Full Name, then Institutional Any additional comments about your use of this site Affiliation (Research, Teaching, Public Engagement etc)

1 04/03/2019 Mx Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston (Univeristy of Oxford) 2 04/03/2019 Dr Jennifer Orr 3 04/03/2019 Dr Shaun McDaid, University of Huddersfield 4 04/03/2019 Professor Richard Kirkland, King’s College 5 04/03/2019 Dr. Aidan O'Malley (University of Rijeka, Croatia) 6 04/03/2019 Mr Gerard Mc Laughlin, QUB Research 7 04/03/2019 Dr Paddy Hoey, Edge Hill University Research and extensively in teaching 8 04/03/2019 Dr Keith Hopper, Oxford University's Department for Continuing Education 9 04/03/2019 Dr Fionna Barber, Reader in Art History, Manchester School of The CAIN site has been invaluable for my own research and I have Art cited it in several publications about art and visual culture in Northern Ireland since 1969. It is also a vital resource for students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The closure of the CAIN website will be a devastating loss not only for academics, but for the countless individuals whose lives and experiences have contributed to the material contained in this archive.

10 04/03/2019 Dr Gemma Clark, University of Exeter This site is an invaluable resource for undergraduate students on my Levels 2 and 3 History modules, as well as for (UG and PG) research projects. I also use it as a first port of call when my own research (on modern political violence) touches on Northern Ireland. 11 04/03/2019 Dr Sean Hewitt, 12 04/03/2019 Dr Michael Robinson () 13 04/03/2019 Dr. Tony Murray, London Metropolitan University 14 04/03/2019 Dr. George Legg, King's College London 15 04/03/2019 Professor James W McAuley University of Huddersfield 16 04/03/2019 Dr Anthony May, Coventry University This resource was very useful when completing my PhD, and I hope it will be open for other researchers in the future. 17 04/03/2019 Ms Claire Green, Queen Mary University of London I have found CAIN invaluable as both a PhD student and research assistant on a long-standing history project related to Northern Ireland. It is particularly useful for scholars outside Northern Ireland who can take only a limited number of research trips to archives in Belfast, if any. At a time when it is as clear as ever how little wider understanding there is in Britain and beyond of the complex nature of the conflict, and how important that understanding is for contemporary issues, this resource should be cherished and promoted. 18 04/03/2019 Dr. F. Stuart Ross 19 04/03/2019 Assoc Prof Vicky Conway, Dublin City University 20 04/03/2019 Ms Sinéad Kennedy Krebs, King's College London 21 04/03/2019 Prof Eugene McNulty, DCU 22 04/03/2019 Dr. Brian Hanley, (Independent) An absolutely vital source for teaching and research, at a time when we need the widest possible access to sources on the Irish conflict.

23 04/03/2019 Emeritus Professor Fintan Cullen, University of Nottingham 24 04/03/2019 Dr Richard Barlow, NTU Singapore 25 04/03/2019 Dexter Govan, Research 26 04/03/2019 Ms Victoria Barry Brown, Queen Mary University, London 27 04/03/2019 Dr Dieter Reinisch, /Webster University Research and Public Engagement 28 04/03/2019 Dr Siún Carden It's never been more important for people around the world to be able to access a comprehensive, reliable and live archive of the conflict in NI. 29 04/03/2019 Dr Oonagh Murphy, Lecturer in Arts Management, Goldsmiths I have used CAIN for research and teaching, I could not have completed my Masters or PhD without it. 30 04/03/2019 Ms Natalie Woods. Postgraduate Student This website is invaliable for my research 31 04/03/2019 Pádraig Ó Mathúna, Drew University 32 04/03/2019 Dr Martin O'Donoghue, University of Limerick 33 04/03/2019 Dr Sarah Jankowitz, University of Liverpool 34 04/03/2019 Dr Jessie Blackbourn, University of Oxford 35 04/03/2019 Dr. Barry Houlihan, NUI Galway I strongly urge for the active, ongoing, and permanent protection of the CAIN website. It is a world-leading archive and resource for the study of contempory politics and social history of Northern Ireland. I regularly consult the CAIN archive as well as feature it on my teaching an direct my students to consult it for studies and course work. It is a vital learning resource as well as public asset for communities to embrace and discover their shared pasts. It is a virtual and accessible window into the complex history of Northern Ireland, in a local and international context. CAIN should be invested in and its future development protected, as well as celebrated, for the remarkable resource that it is.

36 04/03/2019 Professor Tony Crowley, The This is a world-class resource which gains prestige and attention for the University of Ulster; please reconsider your position. 37 04/03/2019 Adam Brodie (University of Oxford) 38 04/03/2019 Dr Máirtín Ó Catháin, University Of Central Lancashire I use the site regularly as do my students at both undergraduate and postgraduate level when studying the Northern Ireland conflict. It is vital that my History students engage with and understand primary sources of the type that CAIN excels in. It brings my British and international students completely new and tremendously important resources and perspectives, but in a small and incremental way helps narrow the gap between British and Irish awareness and understanding of each country's history, political development and cultural life. 39 04/03/2019 Dr Gail McConnell, Queen's University Belfast 40 04/03/2019 Dr Stephen O’Neill, Trinity College Dublin I have used this website for my own research and for teaching since I started doing both. It is an invaluable resource which has effectively been an online platform for truth and reconciliation, and I think it would be an absolute travesty if it weren’t available to all for free permanently. 41 04/03/2019 Brandi Goddard, PhD Student, University of Alberta, Canada 42 04/03/2019 Dr Katie Markham, Newcastle University I made hefty use of this site during my PhD (completed only last year) and had plans to incorporate into a new module that I will be running next year on conflict and culture at Newcastle University. This is an invaluable resource that is a go to for students and researchers alike. please do not get rid! 43 04/03/2019 Dr Zaluczkowska I have used this service extensively for my media research and it will be a great loss if it is closed down. 44 04/03/2019 Dr Derek Hand, DCU 45 04/03/2019 Dr Richard Butler, University of Leicester I use CAIN as part of my undergraduate teaching every year and it is critically important that it continues to be available to students

46 04/03/2019 Mr. James Conor Patterson I am a writer who has made extensive use of the CAIN archive for researching my upcoming poetry collection 'Yew'. This book deals with the local history of the Newry/ South Armagh border region, and CAIN was an invaluable resource when compiling much of the material used. 47 04/03/2019 Associate Professor, Sara Dybris McQuaid, Centre for Irish It has been an invaluable resource for my own research as well as Studies, University for teaching students across a variety of degrees and specialisations at university. I often get contacted by students in secondary education with scarce access to academic journals. For all of us, the website makes a world of difference in terms of transnational and transgenerational engagement with the conflict and the insights generated through the carefully curated and updated materials. 48 04/03/2019 Ciarán Ó Maoláin, National Executive Council member, National Union of Journalists 49 04/03/2019 Mr Alexander Coupe, Goldsmiths, University of London 50 04/03/2019 Prof Richard Grayson, Goldsmiths, University of London CAIN is a valuable authoritative site for both teaching and research, unmatched by any other source. 51 04/03/2019 Dr Stephen Millar, Cardiff University CAIN has been an invaluable resource for both my research and teaching. I urge you to reconsider its closure. 52 04/03/2019 Dr Eamonn Hughes 53 04/03/2019 Lorenzo Bosi, Scuola Normale Superiore, 54 04/03/2019 Professor Graham Dawson, University of Brighton CAIN is an absolutely crucial resource for my research and teaching on memory in the Irish peace process. In enabling informed understanding of the Northern Irish conflict its makes a fundamental contribution to peace-building and the sustainable transformation of conflict. Ulster University is to be congratulated for its stalwart support for this vital public service over many years. It would be a terrible mistake to withdraw that support now.

55 04/03/2019 Dr. James Gallen, Dublin City University Research, teaching 56 04/03/2019 Dr Stuart Borthwick, Liverpool John Moores University 57 04/03/2019 Dr. Michelle McCann (QUB) 58 04/03/2019 Dr Carole Holohan, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin 59 04/03/2019 Dr. Alison Garden, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Queen’s The resource has been truly invaluable for my teaching, , Belfast and creating public engagement activities. 60 04/03/2019 Dr Cathy Bergin, University of Brighton this site is essential to my teaching, it is an invaluable resource 61 04/03/2019 Dr Nick Brooke, University of St Andrews 62 04/03/2019 Dr Fearghus Roulston, University of Brighton Research and teaching 63 04/03/2019 Dr Adam Hanna, CAIN is an invaluable resource which I have used in teaching courses on Northern Irish literature and the Troubles at Trinity College Dublin and, more recently, University College Cork. CAIN is not just valuable for the amount of information it contains, but for the balanced and thoughtful way it presents this information.

Because of recent developments in the political sphere, the Northern Irish border is more contentious than at any time I can remember in the last twenty years. The need for non-party-political, non-nationally-aligned, non-sectarian resources like CAIN is therefore arguably greater now than at any time in the last two decades.

The rather cavalier approach to the border from some Brexit- supporters has led commentators from all parts of the island of Ireland to suggest that Northern Ireland's history and experiences are not valued or regarded as significant in Great Britain. The timing of the threat to CAIN is appalling: it would confirm some of people's worst suspicions.

I find it astonishing that, in 2019 of all times, the existence of this site is threatened. It should be treasured as a rare means of illumination and understanding that is available to everyone, whoever and wherever they are.

64 04/03/2019 Dr Luke Moffett, Queen's University Belfast 65 04/03/2019 Dr Andrew G. Newby, Tampere University An essential tool for anyone teaching or researching NI 66 04/03/2019 Dr Molly Slavin, Georgia Institute of Technology 67 04/03/2019 Associate Professor Emily Mark-FitzGerald, University College The CAIN archive is an invaluable resource for both students and Dublin researchers. Beyond its vital significance for anyone studying Northern Ireland, it's also an important resource for those studying public memory, public art, and visual culture. Given our current immersion in the Decade of Centenaries -- and wider international debates concerning contested commemorations -- its relevance to modern scholarship is as high as ever. I can think of few other online archives with its reach and extensive levels of usage. I would strongly urge UU to rethink any planned closure of CAIN, as such an important and core archive for so many.

68 04/03/2019 Dr Aishling Mc Morrow, Lecturer in International Relations, I have used this website in my own MA, PhD, current research and University of Portsmouth direct my students towards it for both their assignments and a deeper understanding of the Troubles. 69 04/03/2019 Ms. Emma Marie Kelly, Queen's University Belfast This site is invaluable as both a research and teaching resource. 70 04/03/2019 Dr Linda Moore, Ulster University CAIN is the go-to service for all of us who do research on the conflict and transition in Northern Ireland, and for our students. Ulster University should reconsider its plans to close this fantastic resource. 71 04/03/2019 Professor John P. Harrington Fordham University 72 04/03/2019 Dr Lyndsey Harris (Independents Scholar) Have used this site for doctoral research; teaching materials (GB and Terrorism Modules at Birmingham city University and University of Nottingham) 73 04/03/2019 Dr Mark Doyle, Middle Tennessee State University Research and Teaching 74 04/03/2019 Dr William Sheehan 75 04/03/2019 Dr Máire Braniff, Ulster University 76 04/03/2019 Dr. Vivian Valvano Lynch, Professor Emerita, St. John’s University, New York 77 04/03/2019 Ms Rhianne Louise Morgan, Queen's University Belfast I used this website as an undergraduate and it really helped spark my interest in Northern Irish history and was a great resource recommended by my lecturer Dr Claire Fitzpatrick. Further, as a PhD student this site has helped to develop my research.

78 04/03/2019 Dr. Lisa Weihman, Associate Professor of English, West Virginia CAIN has been an invaluable resource to me in teaching students University about the conflict in Northern Ireland. 79 04/03/2019 Dr Sean Brennan QUB 80 04/03/2019 Dr Jay R. Roszman, History Department, University College Cork Prior to my time at UCC, I taught history at Carnegie Mellon University. Can was the single most important resource I used in my teaching. Students used the site on a regular basis to engage with primary sources and to find wider information on the Troubles. I used it often in the classroom for its visual material and for the fabulous GIS maps. Its elimination would be catastrophic for students eager to understand the complexity of Northern Ireland's history and to be exposed to the raw material that makes historical analysis. I urge the University to reconsider their decision.

81 04/03/2019 Dr Julia Paul, independent scholar 82 04/03/2019 Sean Donnelly, PhD candidate at Teesside University This is an invaluable historical resource we cannot afford to lose. 83 04/03/2019 Dr Patrick Doyle, University of Manchester 84 04/03/2019 Dr. Florence Impens, The University of Manchester 85 04/03/2019 Prof. Anne Kane, University of Houston Downtown I've been using the CAIN site for over three years in my study of the NI Conflict and plan to use it for many years to come. It will be a terrible loss if the archive is discontinued. 86 04/03/2019 Dr. Clare Norcio 87 04/03/2019 Garikoitz Gomez Alfaro, University of Brighton 88 04/03/2019 Dr Morris Brodie, Queen's University Belfast 89 04/03/2019 Dr Maggie Scull, NUI Galway CAIN is incredibly important to both my research and my teaching. I've taught across these islands, as well as to American study abroad students, and they find CAIN an invaluable resource.

90 04/03/2019 Professor Robert W. White, Indiana University-Purdue This site is an important resource for my scholarship and the University, Indianapolis scholarship of countless others. 91 04/03/2019 Mr Daragh Carville, Birkbeck, University of London 92 04/03/2019 Dr Sarah Campbell, Newcastle University I use CAIN extensively with teaching at UG and PG level. It is invaluable to the c.17 UG and PG dissertation students I supervise every year, as well as to my stage 2 and 3 modules on NI. Further, the site is invaluable to my own research and allows people who have caring responsibilities and who may not always be able to travel to Belfast to continue with their research.

93 04/03/2019 Dr Eoin Magennis, Senior Economist Ulster University Economic CAIN has long been an online go-to site for anyone interested in NI Policy Centre affairs and used widely by policy makers as well as researchers

94 04/03/2019 Dr Michael Hughes, Queen's University Belfast 95 04/03/2019 Ph. D Candidate, Michael Bailey, Boston College 96 04/03/2019 Prof. Peter Gray, Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University Essential site for teaching the history of the Troubles to students at Belfast all levels 97 04/03/2019 Conor Shields, CEO Community Arts Partnership As an organisation where cultural identity and civic participation okay aspects of our work, we have relied upon CAIN to assist us by offering their unique resource. We have been leading cross community and peace building programmes for almost 20 years developing new ways to engage creatively across some of the deepest divisions within our society. Having access to clear, articulate, concise, and corroborated primary and secondary material makes our job all the easier in terms of navigating the contested cultural and civic space so prevalent in Northern Irish society. It would be a grave concern to all "honest brokers" of new societal and indeed creative possibilities in Northern Ireland that we didn't have the rich and accessible resource that CAIN offers. Instead all would be forced to search much more extensively and labouriously for information that CAIN has consistently presented and maintained in its very accessible web service. As a graduate of the University of Ulster, I am all the more disappointed that such a beneficial resource, a detailed repository of political fact and historiographical context, should be seen as anything but indispensable. 98 04/03/2019 Ultan Sherry, Maynooth University Research 99 04/03/2019 Miss Olivia Brabazon Queen’s University Belfast Used during my MA and now in my PhD 100 04/03/2019 Ciarán Ó Meachair, Queens' University Belfast 101 04/03/2019 Professor William F Flack Jr, Co-Chair, Department of My students and I have depended heavily on the CAIN website for , Bucknell University, Lewisburg PA USA teaching and learning about the conflict in Northern Ireland. Surely support can be found to maintain this vital, unique resource.

102 04/03/2019 Dr. Sean Farrell, Northern Illinois University 103 04/03/2019 Dr Timothy G. McMahon I have used the site in courses over the past fifteen years and have encouraged students and colleagues to turn to it with regularity. The site is invaluable throughout the Diaspora and a unique asset to your University. 104 04/03/2019 Dr Katy Hayward, Queen's University Belfast Since my student days in UU, CAIN has been the top resource for trustworthy, accessible, accurate material on the conflict. I use it constantly in my teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level. I also use it in my research and often advise others (postgrads, researchers, journalists) to do the same. It is an incredible and invaluable resource and one of the things for which UU should be most proud. 105 04/03/2019 Roseanna Doughty, University of Edinburgh As a student of the 'Troubles', I have come to rely on the CAIN Web Service to access both primary and secondary sources. A significant portion of my PhD research would not have been possible without material that is only available through CAIN. Further, much of the contemporary political situation in Britain is owing to a gross ignorance of events in Northern Ireland. To lose this website, to stop the resource building-work on it, would only aggravate this tendency to treat Northern Ireland as an afterthought. I can only reiterate that it has never been more important to increase knowledge and understanding of the issues surrounding this thirty-year conflict. 106 04/03/2019 Dr Tim Wilson, Director, Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism I have used CAIN for 20 years; and guided my own students and Political Violence, St Andrews towards it for nearly that long. It is an enormous long-term success story; a towering humane and intellectual achievement to deepen understanding of the N Irish Troubles. 107 04/03/2019 Professor Shaul Cohen University of Oregon I use the CAIN site for both my research and my teaching. This is an invaluable resource, and any step that diminishes its growth and maintenance would be a blow to important scholarship and to the dissemination of knowledge in the public sphere. My colleagues, students, and I urge continue support for CAIN and the vital work it does. 108 04/03/2019 Donnacha Kirk amateur research, public talks, political activism 109 04/03/2019 Professor John McCourt, Università di Macerata This is a uniquely valuable site for anyone interested in Northern Ireland and as such, should most definitely be maintained and indeed upgraded. It is full of useful material but badly needs a format update. At this crucial time in Northern Ireland history, this archive is more important than ever. 110 04/03/2019 Mr Brian Dougherty MBE Mtpl 111 04/03/2019 Zoe Marchment, UCL 112 04/03/2019 Dr Andrew Sanders As a scholar of the Northern Ireland conflict who is based in the United States, the CAIN site is absolutely essential for my work. Whether it be consulting the chronology of the conflict, or using the Sutton index for crosstabulations, or (indeed one of the highlights of the site) the PRONI and NAI records, I usually find myself on CAIN at least once a week. I encourage anyone with any influence over the process whatsoever to do their utmost to help save and maintain the website. Future scholars of the conflict, both at home and overseas, will be forever grateful for your assistance.

113 04/03/2019 Dr Kate Antosik-Parsons I have used this excellent resource many times for teaching and in my own research on the nuances of identities in Northern Ireland. The loss of this important archive would be immeasurable to the academic community and interested parties more broadly.

114 04/03/2019 Mr. Sven Kretzschmar, Saarland University Research 115 04/03/2019 Jan Tattenberg, New College, University of Oxford 116 04/03/2019 Gail Ritchie, PhD Candidate, QUB I use this site to research Troubles memorials and the interactive maps are invaluable. 117 04/03/2019 Dr Niamh Puirseil, Independent 118 04/03/2019 Dr Karen Trew, Visiting researcher. QUB 119 04/03/2019 Kelly Anne Reynolds, MA student Glucksman Ireland House We were suggested this as an undergrad to do research for our NYU, former BA at Fordham University research papers in The Troubles. Opened a door for numerous other research papers I wrote as an undergrad from NYC. It allowed for my first introduction into archival material and primary sources. 120 04/03/2019 Prof. José Lanters, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 121 04/03/2019 Ms Christine Wilson, Ulster University This site is vital to my own research, for sure, but it is so much more than that - what it offers scholars now and in the future in terms of learning about the Troubles and the peace process is too important to be lost. 122 04/03/2019 Dr Kieran McConaghy, Lecturer, University of St Andrews, This site has proved invaluable during my own time as a student, as Scotland. a professional researcher, and as a resource for teaching. It would be an incredible loss to current and future generations of academics and students were it to be shelved. I implore UU to reconsider and to find the resources required to protect CAIN for posterity. 123 04/03/2019 Josie Richardson, University of Oxford 124 04/03/2019 Ms Amanda Hall, University of St Andrews 125 04/03/2019 Eimear Rosato, BA, MLitt, PhD student Fundamental to my research 126 04/03/2019 Professor John Waters New York University CAIN is a crucial teaching and research resource 127 04/03/2019 Second level History teacher. Orla Keane. Incomparable and irreplaceable site from which I glean foundations for learning about NI and it’s context. 128 04/03/2019 Martina Hunter MA St Mary's University 129 04/03/2019 Mrs Rachel Kacir This was an invaluable resource when I was completing my undergrad and postgrad dissertations on the topics of murals and how museums in Northern Ireland have dealt with the Troubles

130 04/03/2019 Wanzambi mulunda Research 131 04/03/2019 Dr Marc Scully, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick 132 04/03/2019 Dr Nicola Morris, University of Chester 133 04/03/2019 Dr Connal Parr, Northumbria University CAIN is absolutely integral to a module I teach on the Northern Ireland Troubles, which is popular with final-year students at Northumbria University. It would be an absolute travesty to researchers and lecturers on Northern Ireland and the Troubles to lose this resource. Please reconsider the decision. 134 04/03/2019 Dr. Paul Reilly, University of Sheffield I used CAIN in my PhD research and in several publications since- it's an invaluable resource that Ulster University should be expanding rather than closing. 135 04/03/2019 Dr Stephen Hopkins, University of Leicester UK The CAIN site has been an invaluable resource, both for teaching and research 136 04/03/2019 137 04/03/2019 Paul Moyna MOYNA'S TOUR'S Great site for tour guide's to find the facts on the past 138 04/03/2019 Paweł Romańczuk, PhD student, Institute of Irish Studies, Invaluable source of knowledge and references for my project, as Queen's University Belfast for anyone else's working in the field of Irish Studies. 139 04/03/2019 Robert Rowan 140 04/03/2019 Professor Linda Connolly, Maynooth University 141 04/03/2019 Dr Samantha Newbery, University of Salford 142 04/03/2019 Dr Maria Power, University of Oxford 143 04/03/2019 Patrick Cullen Used it for research as a modern history undergrad at QUB 144 04/03/2019 Dr Aileen O'Carroll, Maynooth University 145 04/03/2019 Dr Terry Phillips, Liverpool Hope University 146 04/03/2019 Bradley Duncan, University of Pennsylvania The CAIN database is simply the most important resource of its kind and cannot be allowed to die. It is absolutely essential for all scholars of Ireland and the conflict. 147 04/03/2019 Mrs D Jamison Cert.Nat.Sci 148 04/03/2019 Dr Christopher J V Loughlin, lecturer (teaching focused) Newcastle University. 149 04/03/2019 Dr Pamela Aveyard, Imperial War Museums 150 04/03/2019 Dr Clare Wallace, , Prague, Czech Republic

151 04/03/2019 Jonah McAllister-Erickson, MLIS. University of Pittsburgh 152 04/03/2019 Michael Kinsella Ulster University PhD research CHOMI 153 04/03/2019 Dr Aimee Smith, QUB Invaluable resource during PhD research 154 04/03/2019 Professor Liam Harte, University of Manchester The need to maintain, and to maintain unfettered public access to, this enormously valuable scholarly resource has never been greater than it is in 2019, the Brexit debate in Great Britain having exposed alarmingly deep chasms of ignorance and misunderstanding about the history and culture of Ireland, in all its parts, and Ireland's relationship to Britain. Once could hardly imagine a more unpropitious moment in which to contemplate the closure of CAIN.

155 04/03/2019 Dr Claire McCann, Human Rights Consortium This is an essential resource. I regularly use it and advise members to do likewise. 156 04/03/2019 Dr Dominic Bryan, Queen’s University Belfast. 157 04/03/2019 158 04/03/2019 mr james winters southern regional college essential for research and teaching 159 04/03/2019 Mr Conor McCormick, Lecturer in Law at Queen’s University Belfast 160 04/03/2019 Miss Rachei Kowalski, Univeristy of Oxford This is invaluable for both my research and my teaching. Please do not close 161 04/03/2019 Dr Mercedes del Campo, University of Ulster It was a great resource for my PhD research 162 04/03/2019 Mr Maurice J. Casey, DPhil Student, Jesus College, Oxford Used in research 163 04/03/2019 Dr Ruth Dudley Edwards Research 164 04/03/2019 Dr Ciarán Wallace. Trinity College Dublin I regularly use this valuable resource in teaching on The Troubles, and to other student groups to demonstrate GIS and creative ways of displaying complex historical data. 165 04/03/2019 Dr. Donald M. Beaudette, Emory University 166 04/03/2019 Dr. Nancy J Anderson, Independent Researcher Research, Teaching, basically integral part of my thesis and work in Northern Ireland 167 04/03/2019 Dr Aaron Edwards, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst An invaluable resource with truly international reach. It must be preserved for future generations of students, scholars and citizens in Ireland, the U.K. and around the world. 168 04/03/2019 Dr Raymond Mullen Research 169 04/03/2019 Dr. Matthew J. O'Brien, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio 170 04/03/2019 Dr Lisa White, University of Lincoln. Research, Teaching. 171 04/03/2019 Dr Anne Marie Mooney, University of Nottingham 172 04/03/2019 Dr Martin McCleery Research and Teaching 173 04/03/2019 Brian Philip Curragh MA, Independent Researcher 174 04/03/2019 Dr Hannah Quirk, King's College London This site has been invaluable for my research on miscarriages of justice 175 04/03/2019 Richard Gallagher, Queen's University Belfast 176 04/03/2019 Dr Aisling O’Sullivan, University of Sussex 177 04/03/2019 Dr. Marti D. Lee I have used the CAIN site for extensive research for conference presentations and my dissertation. It has been an invaluable tool for researchers like me who live in the U.S. 178 04/03/2019 Cathrin Ruppe, University of Applied Sciences Münster 179 04/03/2019 Dr Theresa Callan, University of Portsmouth I use this site extensively for teaching on conflict and post - settlement politics- usually the first time that UG students in England encounter the politics of NI. Given where we are today, I think it’s vital such a source continues. 180 04/03/2019 Dr Sean Swan, Gonzaga University 181 04/03/2019 Dr Mo Moulton, University of Birmingham 182 04/03/2019 Dr Seán Byers Research 183 04/03/2019 Dr Charlie Davis, Nottingham Trent University 184 04/03/2019 Dr Stephen Bloomer Ulster University 185 04/03/2019 Dr Thomas Leahy, Cardiff University CAIN has been invaluable in my teaching, research and when I was studying from undergraduate level and beyond. 186 04/03/2019 Mr. Neil Nory Kaplan-Kelly, PhD Student Department of This website has helped me develop my dissertation. Since I am , University of California -Irvine based in the United States, it can be difficult for me to access resources that authentic and clearly contextualized. I have also used CAIN to teach my students how to properly research archives and many of my students have gone on to do conflict resolution work because of the resources from CAIN. 187 04/03/2019 Leonie Windt, University of Münster in Research dir doctoral dissertation 188 04/03/2019 Dr Maeve O'Brien, Ulster Univetsity 189 04/03/2019 Dr Laura Mills, University of St Andrews Public Engagement, Research, Teaching 190 04/03/2019 Sessional Lecturer Mark Schreiber, MA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, 191 04/03/2019 Prof John Barry Research, teaching, community education and outreach 192 04/03/2019 Dr Niall Whelehan, Univeristy of Strathclyde CAIN has proven to be an incredible resource for research and teaching Irish history, and one students use extensively in essays and dissertations. 193 04/03/2019 Mrs Ann Allan Used it for writing my Memories from 1968 194 04/03/2019 Dr Sophie Cooper, University of Edinburgh 195 04/03/2019 Amy Black 196 04/03/2019 Dr Wendy Cousins, Lecturer, Ulster University Invaluable site for researchers. 197 04/03/2019 Dr Agustina Martire, Queen's University Belfast 198 04/03/2019 Michael Lyons, Redhead Exhibition (private We have used the site as reference material for research in production of 69-98 conflict related public exhibitions. Invaluable resource. 199 04/03/2019 Dr. Frank Biletz, Adjunct Instructor of History, Loyola University CAIN is an invaluable resource for both research and teaching. Chicago 200 04/03/2019 Dr. Michele Holmgren Mount Royal University Teaching 201 04/03/2019 Dr. Aisling O'Beirn CAIN is an invaluable, live archive. It is something that UU should be proud of as a growing resource that is used and consulted internationally by a huge range of scholars and interested parties across a range of disciplines. The services CAIN offer are vitally important, especially with regard to the current political climate and the importance of informing future generations. CAIN merits investment and not to invest in its future would be extremely short sighted. 202 04/03/2019 Dr Laura Aguiar, Nerve Centre Research and teaching 203 04/03/2019 Branka Marijan, PhD, Project Ploughshares I have used the site for my thesis, research and teaching. 204 04/03/2019 Dr Ben Warwick, University of Birmingham 205 04/03/2019 Leah Williams 206 04/03/2019 Mr Matthew Gault, Queen's University Belfast Research for PhD 207 04/03/2019 Dr Stephen Baker, Ulster University 208 04/03/2019 Orla Ni Cheallachain, University College Dublin I have used CAIN both in my own research and as a teaching tool. It is an amazing resource and it would be a great loss if it were to close 209 04/03/2019 Dr Claire Mitchell, freelance researcher, Slugger O'Toole I've used CAIN for 25 years for research, teaching, reconciliation work, elections, absolutely every part of my work. A vital resource, must be kept updated. 210 04/03/2019 Dr Laurence Cox, Maynooth University Research - I published a book about 1968 globally using documents supplied by CAIN. 211 04/03/2019 Dr Gerard Madden, Discipline of History, NUI Galway CAIN has been a consistent part of my life as a scholar from my time as an undergraduate to my present scholarship. I find it hard to conceive research without it, and its closure would be a bizarrely self-sabotaging move on Ulster University's part. 212 04/03/2019 Miss Melissa Baird Queen’s University Belfast Research for my PhD 213 04/03/2019 Ms Andrea Walisser, Simon Fraser University (Master of Arts, As a history student studying material culture in the debate over History, 2013) Drumcree and the peace process, CAIN was one of the most central resources available to me. Having used it as an undergraduate, I was excited to be able to return to its collection to further my own research. I was amazed that this resource was open to anyone who wanted to learn more about Northern Ireland, and was in awe of the depth of information you could find there. Please reconsider closing off this vital archive. 214 04/03/2019 Miss Ruth Coon Research 215 04/03/2019 Dr Julie Norman, Queen's University Belfast 216 04/03/2019 Dr claire pierson , university of liverpool 217 04/03/2019 Nollaig Molloy, University of Ulster 218 04/03/2019 Ms Anne Cadwallader, The Pat Finucane Centre I use the CAIN site for research, statistical analysis and fact- checking in my work as an advocacy support worker and writer. 219 04/03/2019 BA Hons Marta Dyczkowska 220 04/03/2019 Mr. Cathal O'Hagan, Queen's University Be;fast 221 05/03/2019 Dr. Brian F. McCabe, University of La Verne College of Law Cited 51 times in my dissertation, “Burning the Balaclava: Writing Reconciliation in Drama from the Northern Ireland Troubles”

222 05/03/2019 Dr Mark Corcoran 223 05/03/2019 Dr. Julia Obert, University of Wyoming I use this wonderful resource all the time in both my research and my teaching. It would be such a great shame to lose this important open-access record of cultural memory in Northern Ireland.

224 05/03/2019 Dr. Erin Costello Wecker, University of Montana Research, Teaching, Public Engagement, Communtiy Outreach 225 05/03/2019 Seamus Scanlon, Librarian (Centre for Worker Education, City College, New York)b 226 05/03/2019 Dr. Peter Gilmore, Carlow University 227 05/03/2019 Chartered Life Underwriter,CLU,David E. McCabe, Retired 228 05/03/2019 Mr Sean Maguire 229 05/03/2019 Dr. Stephanie Callan, Associate Professor, Spring Hill College, This site is invaluable for my research and teaching. Without it, we Mobile Alabama lose a valuable archive of comprehensive, scholarly, and scrupulously fair information. 230 05/03/2019 Dr. Megan W. Minogue This site was instrumental in my PhD research and continues to be incredibly relevant and necessary in my research and writing.

231 05/03/2019 Visiting Assistant Professor Danielle Zach, Adelphi University Research, teaching 232 05/03/2019 Dr David Morrison, The Open University 233 05/03/2019 Dr Pamela McKane Research 234 05/03/2019 Dr Peter O’Neill, university of Georgia Invaluable resource 235 05/03/2019 Prof Jon Tonge Been using CAIN for two decades! 236 05/03/2019 Mrs Sarah Barmby (Student) Liverpool Hope University I am a 3rd history student, writing about the Troubles for my dissertation. Will be doing my MA in October and doing my dissertation on the Troubles! This is the foundation of my research... 237 05/03/2019 Dr David Shaw Institute of Irish Studies University of Liverpool 238 05/03/2019 Professor Harry McMahon, Ulster University It should not be forgotten that CAIN has always been a valuable resource for visual artists whose work contributes to the maintenance of the peace process in Ireland. It is vital that this creative work can continue to both draw upon and contribute to CAIN in future years. 239 05/03/2019 Mr Stephen O'Neill 240 05/03/2019 Dr Ida Milne, Carlow College. I have used this resource to teach Irish history in four different academic institutions. It is hugely important to the important work of explaining the conflict. 241 05/03/2019 Associate Professor Laura McAtackney, Fundamentally important resource for anyone working on the Troubles. I’ve used it innumerable times and in a variety of ways. 242 05/03/2019 Noel Molloy Artist present and future generations need to be informed about the Northern Ireland conflict/ war 243 05/03/2019 Dr Dominique Bouchard, Head of Learning and Interpretation, CAIN provides vital living digital documentation of primary source English Heritage material in Northern Ireland. To reduce it to simply an ‘archive of what was’ ignores the ongoing role of public history in the dynamics of community identities in NI. 244 05/03/2019 Dr Marisol Morales-Ladrón Irish and northern Irish literature 245 05/03/2019 Dr John Nagle, Reader in Sociology, the University of Aberdeen I worked at CAIN for over 18 months collect and add material for its section on victims and commemorating the Troubles. CAIN is still my go to site for data and papers related to the conflict and the peace process. It is absolutely unique in the field of conflict and studies and is known and used by an international audience. Very major university that hosts a research institute on conflict and peace would love to have a resource such as CAIN to advertise the wider university. Moreover, there is still much work to do with collecting materials on the conflict and peace process, which is ongoing. 246 05/03/2019 Dr Eamonn O'Kane, University of Wolverhampton CAIN is a vital source for those researching and teaching the Northern Ireland conflict. I would strongly urge Ulster University to continue to support this unique and internationally recognised resource. 247 05/03/2019 Lisa Shukov , UEL Masters Programme This site has been invaluable for my research into Northern Ireland and should continue to be made available to everyone. 248 05/03/2019 Dr Chris Cusack, Radboud University Research, Teaching 249 05/03/2019 Dr Fabrice Mourlon Université Paris 13 250 05/03/2019 Dr Mathew Staunton CAIN has been an invaluable research tool for years. Its loss would be a massive blow to students and teachers alike 251 05/03/2019 Dr Brian Hughes, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick I have been using this site to teach since I began taking undergraduate seminars during my PhD studies a decade ago. In particular, the database of murals remains a regular part of my teaching and is – like the rest of the site – an invaluable resource, not least in recording murals that have changed or disappeared. The closure of this site would be nothing short of a disaster for scholars and students of the Troubles, and 20th century Ireland more generally. 252 05/03/2019 Hugh Hanley, University of Cambridge Teaching 253 05/03/2019 Naomi Petropoulos Queens University Belfast 254 05/03/2019 Dr Caroline Kuzemko 255 05/03/2019 Professor Paul Dixon, Birkbeck College, university of London An excellent resource and important contribution to the quality of political discourse in Northern Ireland 256 05/03/2019 Dr Sarah Roddy, University of Manchester 257 05/03/2019 Dr Stephen Kelly, Senior Lecturer in Modern History, Liverpool CAIN is an invaluable online learning research and teaching Hope University. resource. I would appeal to the University of Ulster to continue to fund this world-class platform. 258 05/03/2019 PhD Candidate, Caitlin White, Trinity College Dublin. 259 05/03/2019 Master, Michael Avila, QUB Research, uploading/contributing content 260 05/03/2019 Dr Sorcha O’Brien, Kingston University London 261 05/03/2019 Dr Catherine Bateson, 262 05/03/2019 Dr Catherine McGlynn, University of Huddersfield 263 05/03/2019 Dr Eoin O'Malley, Dublin City University 264 05/03/2019 Dr Neil Matthews, 265 05/03/2019 Dermot Lucey CorkHTA & UCC I have often used this site as a secondary teacher for studying The Troubles in Leaving Cert History 266 05/03/2019 Ms Michele Ridgway MPhil TCD Tremendous resource for understanding Northern Ireland mind sets

267 05/03/2019 Dr Gillian O’Brien, Liverpool John Moores University 268 05/03/2019 Dr Tony Craig, Associate Professor Modern History, I use this site in my own academic research and in teaching a year- Staffordshire University long undergraduate Irish History course. 269 05/03/2019 Ms Marie-Louise Synnott, AMIMechE Within university I debated and although I have an aerospace background, I have used CAIN multiple times for sources for debates and to learn about the history of my country. It is not just students of this specific faculty this would affect.

270 05/03/2019 Dr Georgina Laragy Used in research, teaching and public engagement 271 05/03/2019 Dr Owen Fenton 272 05/03/2019 Dr Patrick Walsh Trinity College Dublin 273 05/03/2019 Des Dalton 274 05/03/2019 Mrs Gemma Reid, quarto (www.quartocollective.com) This site is an invaluable resource for anyone researching or working in the field of the contested heritage of Northern Ireland. quarto have been involved in a number of projects researching and documenting oral relating to the Troubles period, and this resource provides valuable contextual and factual information essential to manage such projects ethically and effectively.

275 05/03/2019 Professor Graham Walker, Queen's University Belfast 276 05/03/2019 Ms. Nicola Browne, Atlantic Fellow, London School of CAIN is invaluable and unique as a resource that can help people begin to understand the complexities of the Northern Ireland conflict at no cost and wherever they are in the world. It must be retained.

277 05/03/2019 Craig Murray, Imperial War Museum Research 278 05/03/2019 Professor Feargal Cochrane, University of Kent My students have used CAIN for over 20 years -and they may still do if they have retained an interest in NI since their degrees. I use it and I cite it regularly in my published work. UU does not, to my knowledge (and I used to work there,) have an abundance of reputational assets with the global recognition that CAIN has, so to effectively kill it seems a crazy business decision -never mind the public service dimension of its mission.

So, when journalists and academics are looking for materials on Brexit over the next 2-5-10 years they may click on CAIN out of muscle memory and there will be nothing there -because the' investment' (and that is what it is) will have been spent on new carpets, or recruitment consultants, or more GDPR training. Not sure if UU are interested in global rankings or not -but closing CAIN, one of its key reputational assets, would suggest that it is not. 279 05/03/2019 Dr Christine Andrä, Aberystwyth University, Department of International Politics 280 05/03/2019 Dr Clodagh Tait, Mary immaculate College 281 05/03/2019 Professor Ian McBride, University of Oxford It's the first point of reference for all students studying the NI Troubles 282 05/03/2019 Dr Sean Haughey, University of Liverpool 283 05/03/2019 Professor Yvonne Galligan 284 05/03/2019 Elaine Brothers B.A. This site was invaluable to me when studying Irish history at Magee. The enormous benefit of this resource in academic study and to the general public cannot be over estimated. 285 05/03/2019 Dr Mary McAuliffe, University College Dublin 286 05/03/2019 Ms Beth Kitson, University of Oxford 287 05/03/2019 Dr Stephanie Boland I use CAIN in my work as a journalist. It's a vital resource that helps tell stories otherwise overlooked by the media in these isles.

288 05/03/2019 Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley I use CAIN frequently for teaching and especially for enabling student dissertation research: without this research, the ability to teach the history of the Troubles will be massively diminished. 289 05/03/2019 Dr Matthew Kerry, University of Leeds/University of Stirling Teaching, an invaluable aid 290 05/03/2019 Ms Samantha Gowdy Queen's University Belfast An invaluable source of information for academics and beyond which is much needed. 291 05/03/2019 Mr Aidan Laverie (Student, University of Strathclyde) The CAIN archive was an invaluable resource in the completion of my dissertation this year, on the topic of Bloody Sunday. Without the use of CAIN, it would have been far more difficult to find the necessary primary sources and information to complete my work.

292 05/03/2019 Ms Jennifer Mcnern This is a vital Research and Teaching resource. Why away with important and historical information? 293 05/03/2019 Dr Jack McDonald, King's College London I direct students to this site as Northern Ireland is a key case study in my teaching. 294 05/03/2019 Dr Neil Fleming, University of Worcester 295 05/03/2019 Ms Emily Rose Hay, University of Edinburgh Research 296 05/03/2019 Dr Margaret O' Callaghan , School of History Anthropology and Politics Queen's University Belfast 297 05/03/2019 Dr Conor Mulvagh, School of History, University College Dublin I use CAIN extensively to teach UCD's largest undergraduate history course on Northern Ireland and the Troubles. Digital access to archives via CAIN is essential to citizenship in both Ireland and Britain. I hope sense will prevail. 298 05/03/2019 Ms Erika Marzano, University of Trento Graduate Research 299 05/03/2019 Dr James Gallacher 300 05/03/2019 Mark Holan, Mark Holan's Irish-American Blog "The website also has an importance well beyond academia ... " The resource is valuable not only on the island of Ireland, but globally. Certainly here in the USA. 301 05/03/2019 Dr Charlotte Rault, Université Toulouse Capitole 302 05/03/2019 Professor Margaret Harper, University of Limerick 303 05/03/2019 Paul Mc Cusker, Social Worker. It is important we retain this objective source of information for future research and current reflection. 304 05/03/2019 Dr. John Morrison, Royal Holloway, University of London CAIN has been an invaluable resource across my research from MA research right up to now. I cannot imagine researching political violence in Northern Ireland without it 305 05/03/2019 Prof. Maura Conway, Dublin City University The usefulness of this site extends far beyond Irish Studies to Politics/Political Science, International Relations, Terrorism Studies, even Media and Communications (e.g. murals). 306 05/03/2019 Dr. Meadhbh Ní Dhuinn, NUIG 307 05/03/2019 Masters in military History CAIN was an extremely pivotal resource during my research for my thesis on the Troubles. 308 05/03/2019 Dr Mary C. Murphy An invaluable resource and an important record of conflict; its loss would be a devastating blow for scholars, students and conflict studies more broadly. 309 05/03/2019 Mr Richard Terry, St. Colman’s College, Fermoy 310 05/03/2019 Professor David Gleeson, Northumbria University 311 05/03/2019 Professor John Mulrooney- Bridgewater State University This is a vital resource for my students and my own work. It would be a terrible loss. 312 05/03/2019 Mr Brian Larkin BA(Hons) Irish History, Politics and Society, Research University of Ulster Alumni, Ex Magee College Site Vice President, University of Ulster Students Union 313 05/03/2019 Dr Patrick Finnegan, University of Reading 314 05/03/2019 Dr Siobhán McAlister, QUB A vital research and teaching resource. 315 05/03/2019 Johnny Burke BA (English & History) The CAIN website is an invaluable source of material for any historian. I used it frequently as part of my degree course. It would be a crying shame if it were to be closed due to a lack of funding.

316 05/03/2019 Dr Danni Glover, independent academic 317 05/03/2019 Hanna Clutterbuck-Cook (independent scholar) 318 05/03/2019 Mr James Bright, University of Edinburgh 319 05/03/2019 Dr Tom Walker, Trinity College Dublin 320 05/03/2019 Mr Steven Egan, Queen's University Belfast I'm a PhD researcher at Queen's University and a tutor of 20th Century Ireland to second-year undergraduates. I have personally used CAIN since 2014 and remain a regular user. CAIN is an absolutely essential resource for anyone (not just students!) seeking to learn about the Troubles. We should be promoting services like CAIN, not scrapping it. 321 05/03/2019 Dr Timothy A Heron, Associate Professor at the University of As an Northern Ireland studies academic based outside the UK, my Strasbourg, France work would have been made much more difficult (and some aspects of it impossible) without the precious resource that is CAIN.

322 05/03/2019 Dr Jim Clarke, Coventry University 323 05/03/2019 Darren Boyle, MailOnline Journalist. 324 05/03/2019 Conor Murray, Dublin City University Resources like these are needed now more than ever. An academic understanding of the Northern Ireland conflict is invaluable as a source due to lasting divisions as to the sources of and conduct of that conflict. Some of those sitting at Westminster appear willing to jettison the peace process in favour of economic self-interest. The citing of evidence that amounts to little more than right-wing propaganda has been central to this ignorance regarding the conflict and peace process.

325 05/03/2019 Dr Simon May (Coventry University) 326 05/03/2019 Dr Jonathan Evershed, University College Cork 327 05/03/2019 Dr Cera Murtagh, Villanova University I have made extensive use of the CAIN web service in my research on political parties and elections in Northern Ireland and it has also been extremely useful in informing my current teaching of Northern Ireland politics. I see it as an invaluable resource for scholars, researchers, teachers and members of the wider community concerned with the Northern Ireland conflict and would appeal strongly to the University of Ulster to retain it.

328 05/03/2019 Dr Stefanie Lehner Research & Teaching; absolutely invaluable for both ! 329 05/03/2019 Jennifer Young Teaching 330 05/03/2019 Dr. Amy C. Mulligan, 331 05/03/2019 Prof Rob Savage Cain is a critical source for teaching and research 332 05/03/2019 Ms Emma O’Kelly HTAI Dept of Education Research and classroom teaching 333 05/03/2019 Ms Kirsty Campbell, PhD candidate, University of St. Andrews Research 334 05/03/2019 Joseph Decie 335 05/03/2019 Ms. Rosemary Brown DCU Alumni 336 06/03/2019 Dr. Patrick Tally, Boulder I always assign readings from this site when teaching my Irish History course. 337 06/03/2019 Darragh Mondoux As a pupil of Irish studies I know my research will benefit from this institution remaining open indefinitely, I would be sad to lose this before ever getting a chance to fully make use of it. 338 06/03/2019 Mr Paul Taggart, Sacred Heart Frammar School, Newry The CAIN site has proved invaluable for myself and my students in being able to access contemporary sources which have undoubtedly benefited our understanding of the complex problems which Northern Ireland faces. We cannot let this be erased from learning! 339 06/03/2019 Miss Jessica Larin Concordia University research 340 06/03/2019 Miss Chloe Gibson Concordia University Research 341 06/03/2019 Erin Dunlop, Concordia University 342 06/03/2019 Sadie Gilker - MA student at Concordia University -Canada This archive is one of my main sources of information for my masters degree. I cannot stress how valuable this archive is. It would be a disservice for anyone interested in the conflict if it were to be shut down. 343 06/03/2019 Alanna Fahey 344 06/03/2019 Charlotte Forbes, McGill University Archival research 345 06/03/2019 Lic. Giselle Gonzalez Garcia, Concordia University, School of I believe archives and digital services are of the outmost Irish Studies importance not only for academians, but also for the community to which this body of knowledge belongs to. Preserving knowledge and making it easily accesible is soemthing in which it is necessary to invest more, nor less. 346 06/03/2019 Ms Sawyer Gilker Research 347 06/03/2019 Kay Nguyen, Concordia University Research 348 06/03/2019 Geoff Gilker Research 349 06/03/2019 Ms. Karley McIlwaine, Concordia University Research 350 06/03/2019 Ted Smyth, President Advisory Board Glucksman Ireland House NYU 351 06/03/2019 Prof. Laura Menéndez de la Torre University of Havana 352 06/03/2019 353 06/03/2019 354 06/03/2019 Masters student, Raquel Cruz, Institute National de la Recherche Research Scientifique 355 06/03/2019 Dahlia Belinsky, Concordia University Research 356 06/03/2019 Dr Nathalie Sebbane University Sorbonne Nouvelle 357 06/03/2019 Matthew Signer, 358 06/03/2019 Daniela fundaro Teaching 359 06/03/2019 Samantha Boyd 360 06/03/2019 Professor Catriona Pennell, University of Exeter This is a vital resource for both the research and teaching of this seminal period in British and Irish history. 361 06/03/2019 Dr Catherine Baker () I have been able to refer students interested in the Northern Ireland conflict to this site as a trusted and comprehensive source of research material - it is invaluable to have this available online and for free. 362 06/03/2019 363 06/03/2019 364 06/03/2019 365 06/03/2019 Dr Jorge Gonzalez Arocha, Professor University of Havana 366 06/03/2019 Una Murphy, Coventry University 367 06/03/2019 Ms Lara Whyte, Coventry University As a journalist source and fact-check reference. 368 06/03/2019 M.A. Samantha Rose Simpson, I received my first M.A. in History from Central European University in Budapest, Hungary in 2016 and a second M.A. in Military History from Maynooth University in 2018. The research I conducted for both of these degrees focused on the Troubles in Northern Ireland with CAIN serving as an invaluable resource. CAIN first helped to spark my interest in history of conflict in Ireland/Northern Ireland when I was living in the US and since I have spent most of academic career outside of Ireland and Northern Ireland it was both necessary and helpful to have access to the documents online. CAIN helps to provide access to sources and documents that are vital to the study of history in Ireland and Northern Ireland. I believe that the website should remain open in order to encourage young scholars like myself to keep researching this significant period of history. 369 06/03/2019 Sheelagh Colclough, PhD Researcher, Ulster University Invaluable research resource 370 06/03/2019 Dr Garrett Carr, Seamus Heaney Centre, Queens University Belfast 371 06/03/2019 Dr Philip O'Sullivan The Open University An invaluable public good and academic resource for everyone. 372 06/03/2019 Dr. John Countryman, Virginia Commonwealth University I conduct research on the Troubles and the Reminiscence Network.

373 06/03/2019 Ms Kyla Steiner 374 06/03/2019 PhD Student, John McDonnell, Maynooth University Key in advancing my MA research into collusion between British and Loyalist forces 375 06/03/2019 Cindel velazquez Cervantes Que se mantenga vivo este archivo 376 06/03/2019 Dr. Jorge Mastrapa. University of Alumni. Public Engagement 377 06/03/2019 Stephen Pinfield, student Researching my country's history is very important for me 378 06/03/2019 Laura Conway, Concordia University Research 379 06/03/2019 Miss Aleja Allen, PhD Candidate, University College Dublin I am an American student from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Although I had always been in love with the idea of Ireland as a young person, I did not truly understand it until I entered college and took a Modern Irish history course. After that I determined I wanted to be an Irish historian, which with the help of my advisor, I settled on the Troubles. Being a student of the Troubles in a state some 5,000 miles away from Northern Ireland is no easy feat, and I know without a doubt it would have been impossible if I had not had access to CAIN. I completed a senior thesis on the Long March in 1969 for my undergraduate degree, and then conducted a transnational analysis of the housing issue between Derry and South Boston for my Masters. For both of these projects, I relied heavily on CAIN for resources and academic analysis. I am know at UCD, and although a few thousand miles closer to Northern Ireland, I still rely on the information available through CAIN. If Northern Irish officials, professors, and citizens wish to see the North's history continue to be analyzed and debated across the world, archiving a resource like CAIN will do great damage to this endeavor. I would urge you to reconsider this decision.

380 06/03/2019 Jason Muir no. just no. 381 06/03/2019 Marie-Eve tremblay, Undergraduate BA in Irish Studies and Research History, Concordia University 382 06/03/2019 Mr,. Sean Cavanagh This is a very useful archive and I see no reason to shut it down. Please reconsider 383 06/03/2019 Roan O'Neill, student, Macalester College, St.Paul, USA This site has played an essential role in my research from high school up until undergraduate. 384 06/03/2019 Nathan Chard 385 06/03/2019 Andrea Brown This is a resource of great historical, cultural and social importance. Please help to keep knowledge accessible. 386 06/03/2019 Reine Alroumhin, Concordia University 387 06/03/2019 Monica Jewer 388 06/03/2019 DPhil Student, Michaela Moriarty, University of Oxford. 389 06/03/2019 MA Research 390 06/03/2019 Dr. Maria Szasz, University of New Mexico Honors College, USA I have researched extensively using CAIN, for my dissertation, other articles, my current book project, and my classes as well. This is an invaluable resource for scholars, especially those of us who live far from the North. I so hope that it can continue! CAIN has made such a difference for so many of us! 391 06/03/2019 Professor Henry Patterson, Ulster University 392 06/03/2019 Dr Sarah L Townsend, University of New Mexico 393 06/03/2019 Brittany Lee 394 06/03/2019 Dr Laurence Cooley, University of Birmingham 395 06/03/2019 Dr Natasha Grayson, civil servant and independent researcher. I have used this site for my own understanding, teaching and to educate civil servants 396 06/03/2019 397 07/03/2019 Stella Ndizeye, Concordia University 398 07/03/2019 Nicola Wilson This website is extremely important to my research and the research of students and law makers! This is an invaluable source and we cannot lose it! 399 07/03/2019 Nicola Wilson, Concordia University. 400 07/03/2019 Robin Brodrick, BA Major Irish Studies, Concordia University Research 401 07/03/2019 Ms marie kohut, n/a Research 402 07/03/2019 Engineer, Jibsan Joel Rosa Toirac, SOFTEL 403 07/03/2019 Mr Callum McNeill-Keay Liverpool Hope University Research 404 07/03/2019 Dr Akil N Awan, Royal Holloway, University of London 405 07/03/2019 Dr Jennifer Redmond, Maynooth University This is an essential tool for my undergraduate teaching. In a time when we are trying to educate students about crucial aspects of Irish history we need this resource. We also need credible digitized sources for ordinary people to be able to find to educate themselves on the history of Northern Ireland. I do hope this decision is reconsidered 406 07/03/2019 Professor Emerita Catherine B. Shannon, Westfield State The CAIN website has been absolutely crucial to my past and University current research on the origins, course and consequences of the Northern Irish conflict. Access to its collections enables historians, political scientists, sociologists and literary scholars to find essential and valuable information and produce works that help to promote understanding of the roots of the conflict and make cross community empathy and reconciliation possible. Resources spent on CA IN are a small price for the long term benefits it brings in promoting understanding and reconciliation in Northern Ireland. Please save it. 407 07/03/2019 Dr. Elizabeth DeYoung, University of Liverpool Research, public engagement 408 08/03/2019 Dr Matthew Fogarty, Maynooth University 409 08/03/2019 Dr Theresa O’Keefe, University College Cork 410 08/03/2019 Professor David Brundage, History Department, University of I am a huge user of this site. In my upper-division history course, California Santa Cruz HIS 166: Northern Ireland: Communities in Conflict, I have my students access it on a weekly basis for purposes of class discussion and have them utilize it heavily in building bibliographies for their final papers. As a researcher, I found the site invaluable for my own book on transnational dimensions of Irish nationalism, "Irish Nationalists in America" (Oxford University Press, 2016), as well as for a current project that I am engaged in on connections and parallels between the African American and Northern Irish Catholic civil rights movements, 1965-1972. I strongly urge the University of Ulster to support this critically important resource.

411 08/03/2019 Ruth Daly, University of Leeds 412 08/03/2019 Kassandra Levesque-Wong, Student 413 08/03/2019 Matthew Knight, University of South Florida 414 08/03/2019 Dr. Jennifer Dukes-Knight, University of South Florida This site is invaluable to our students. 415 08/03/2019 Dr Kate Costello-Sullivan, Le Moyne College 416 08/03/2019 Dr Edward Burke, University of Nottingham 417 08/03/2019 Dr Stuart Aveyard, Manchester Metropolitan University 418 08/03/2019 Dr Cecilia Biaggi, Erasmus University Rotterdam 419 08/03/2019 Dr. Anna Teekell, Christopher Newport University I use CAIN regularly for both teaching (undergraduates) and research (I'm a literature and culture scholar). I've been using the website regularly for at least 15 years. 420 08/03/2019 Professor Brian McIlroy, University of British Columbia It's an essential site for courses and research on Northern Ireland.

421 08/03/2019 Assoc. Professor Mary Trotter, UW - Madison 422 08/03/2019 Ms Rebecca Stacey, Concordia University I have used this in my lectures as a grad student, and have been using this website since I was an undergrad in Concordia's Irish Studies program. 423 08/03/2019 Prof Joseph Heininger, Dominican University 424 08/03/2019 Professor Cahal McLaughlin, Queens University Belfast. Crucial and unrivalled resource for students and researchers, locally and internationally. 425 08/03/2019 Professor Siobhan Wills, Ulster University 426 08/03/2019 Dr. Molly Ferguson, Ball State University I have used this site for teaching in my Senior Seminar, which had a "Mapping Literature" theme. It was very well received. 427 08/03/2019 Mr Padraig McGonagle, Queen's University, Belfast 428 08/03/2019 Dr Elaine Thomas The Open University 429 09/03/2019 Annie Morrisette, University of Maine 430 09/03/2019 Dr. Rachel Banke, University of Missouri Teaching 431 09/03/2019 Mr Stephen Goulding, Centre for Media Research, Ulster Research University 432 09/03/2019 Prof M Nic Craith, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. 433 09/03/2019 Laney Lenox, Ulster University I specifically look at archives of conflict. CAIN is an incredibly unique and valuable space that deserves to be preserved. 434 10/03/2019 Professor Troy Davis, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches Texas 435 11/03/2019 Professor Michael Kerr, King's College London This resource is indispensable for students and scholars of the Troubles all over the world. 436 11/03/2019 Dr Erika Hanna University of Bristol 437 11/03/2019 Dr. Erin Hinson, Abbey Research I have been studying the conflict for 13 years, and have utilized the resources on CAIN for the entirety of that time. I have also shared CAIN with all the students I had while I taught in Northern Ireland. It is an invaluable and irreplaceable resource for those studying conflict. 438 11/03/2019 PhD Candidate, Sarah Churchill, Drew University Research 439 11/03/2019 Max Moran