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Thatcher, Northern Ireland and Anglo-Irish Relations, 1979-1990
From ‘as British as Finchley’ to ‘no selfish strategic interest’: Thatcher, Northern Ireland and Anglo-Irish Relations, 1979-1990 Fiona Diane McKelvey, BA (Hons), MRes Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences of Ulster University A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the Ulster University for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy August 2018 I confirm that the word count of this thesis is less than 100,000 words excluding the title page, contents, acknowledgements, summary or abstract, abbreviations, footnotes, diagrams, maps, illustrations, tables, appendices, and references or bibliography Contents Acknowledgements i Abstract ii Abbreviations iii List of Tables v Introduction An Unrequited Love Affair? Unionism and Conservatism, 1885-1979 1 Research Questions, Contribution to Knowledge, Research Methods, Methodology and Structure of Thesis 1 Playing the Orange Card: Westminster and the Home Rule Crises, 1885-1921 10 The Realm of ‘old unhappy far-off things and battles long ago’: Ulster Unionists at Westminster after 1921 18 ‘For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country’: 1950-1974 22 Thatcher on the Road to Number Ten, 1975-1979 26 Conclusion 28 Chapter 1 Jack Lynch, Charles J. Haughey and Margaret Thatcher, 1979-1981 31 'Rise and Follow Charlie': Haughey's Journey from the Backbenches to the Taoiseach's Office 34 The Atkins Talks 40 Haughey’s Search for the ‘glittering prize’ 45 The Haughey-Thatcher Meetings 49 Conclusion 65 Chapter 2 Crisis in Ireland: The Hunger Strikes, 1980-1981 -
A Comparative Study of Extremism Within Nationalist Movements
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EXTREMISM WITHIN NATIONALIST MOVEMENTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND SPAIN by Ashton Croft Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Departmental Honors in the Department of History Texas Christian University Fort Worth, Texas 22 April 2019 Croft 1 A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EXTREMISM WITHIN NATIONALIST MOVEMENTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND SPAIN Project Approved: Supervising Professor: William Meier, Ph.D. Department of History Jodi Campbell, Ph.D. Department of History Eric Cox, Ph.D. Department of Political Science Croft 2 ABSTRACT Nationalism in nations without statehood is common throughout history, although what nationalism leads to differs. In the cases of the United Kingdom and Spain, these effects ranged in various forms from extremism to cultural movements. In this paper, I will examine the effects of extremists within the nationalism movement and their overall effects on societies and the imagined communities within the respective states. I will also compare the actions of extremist factions, such as the Irish Republican Army (IRA), the Basque Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA), and the Scottish National Liberation Army (SNLA), and examine what strategies worked for the various nationalist movements at what points, as well as how the movements connected their motives and actions to historical memory. Many of the groups appealed to a wider “imagined community” based on constructing a shared history of nationhood. For example, violence was most effective when it directly targeted oppressors, but it did not work when civilians were harmed. Additionally, organizations that tied rhetoric and acts back to actual histories of oppression or of autonomy tended to garner more widespread support than others. -
Download 27 March Agenda
ARDS AND NORTH DOWN BOROUGH COUNCIL 20 March 2019 Dear Sir/Madam You are hereby invited to attend a meeting of the Ards and North Down Borough Council which will be held in the Council Chamber, Town Hall, The Castle, Bangor on Wednesday, 27 March 2019 commencing at 7.00pm. Yours faithfully Stephen Reid Chief Executive Ards and North Down Borough Council A G E N D A 1. Prayer 2. Apologies 3. Declarations of Interest 4. Mayor’s Business 5. Mayor and Deputy Mayor Engagements for the Month (To be tabled) 6. Minutes of Meeting of Council dated 27 February 2019 (Copy attached) 7. Minutes of Committees (Copies attached) 7.1. Planning Committee dated 5 March 2019 7.2. Environment Committee dated 6 March 2019 7.3. Regeneration and Development Committee dated 7 March 2019 ***ITEM 7.3.1 IN CONFIDENCE*** 7.3.1 Belfast Region City Deal – Updated Heads of Terms (Report to follow) 7.4. Corporate Services Committee dated 12 March 2019 7.4.1. Veterans’ Day 2019 and Proposal to Mark 75th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings (Report attached) 7.5. Community and Wellbeing Committee dated 13 February 2019 8. Request for Deputation 8.1 Congress – Irish Congress of Trade Unions Northern Ireland Committee (Correspondence attached) 9. Resolution 9.1 Newry, Mourne and Down District Council – Geographical Disposal Facility by Radioactive Waste Management (Correspondence attached) 10. Courses/Invitations etc. 10.1 The Regimental Association UDR – The Ulster Defence Regiment Day Event on Sunday 7th April, Palace Barracks, Holywood. 11. Consultation Documents 11.1 Consultation Response on Allergen Labelling (Report attached) 12. -
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E.R. COVERING CONFIDENTrA~ ., PAB/156S/RE psis of S (L&B) PS/Lord Gowrie (L&B) ps/pus (L&B), / PS/Sir E Bely Mr Merifield Mr Brennan Mr Bourn Mr Angel Miss Davies Mr Abbott Mr Boys Smi Mr Edis Mr Templeton GENERAL ELECTION: ELECTORAL PROSPECTS 1. I attach the last of our series of reviews of the prospects of the major parties. 2. The prospects of the smaller parties - the Workers Party etc - will be covered in our weekly round-up of the campaign. ~ fJ. Politica~l Affairs Division 19 May 1983 COVERING ~omFIDENT'Al © PRONI CENT/1/12119 • • I.R. THE GENERAL ELECTION: ELECTORAL PROSPECTS OF THE UNIONIST PARTIES Introduction 1. At recent elections in Northern I~eland, unionist candidates have won about 60 per cent of the total vote. The squeezing out of the smaller unionist parties such as UPNI and UUUP means that at the coming election nearly all this vote will be shared between Mr Molyneaux's Offic ial \ Unionist Party (UUP) and Mr Paisley's Ulster Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). The number of seats which each of the main unionist parties win, will depend upon the way the unionist vote splits between them and whether they can reach any agreement about the fielding of candidates in the six "nationalist" constit uencies . Relative strengths 2 . Since the last general election the DUP has grown in strengt h and has been challenging the position of the UUP as the major unionist party. At the Eur opean elections in 1979, for example, Mr Paisley won the suppor t of more thrul half of the unionist electorate and two years later, at the Dis trict Co uncil elections of 1981, his party did slight ly bett er, in terms of votes, t han the lIU P. -
John Barry [email protected] @Profjohnbarry the History of the Troubles According to Wikipedia…Or My Da… Alternative Titles for My Talk…
The origins and development of ‘the troubles’ John Barry [email protected] @ProfJohnBarry The history of the troubles according to Wikipedia…or my da… Alternative titles for my talk…. ‘From Civil Rights to Armalites’ or ‘Troubling the Troubles’…according to a ‘mouth from the south’ Setting out… My stall – I’m not a historian I’m not from Northern Ireland/ the North/ (occupied) six counties/Ulster/’Norn Iron’/’this place’/’the province’ I’m neither a nationalist nor a unionist ….except trade unionist and an internationalist…. And I’m a republican….but not in the Irish republican sense…. And recovering (Green Party) politician And I was born in 1966…. So, what my presentation is about is my take – as a citizen not an expert - on the origins of the troubles in the late 1960s /early 1970s My overview and consideration of the main events, reasons for them etc. as an invitation for discussion and debate So…less an academic lecture based on expert knowledge …and more a personal (but still political) set of reflections And also about being honest about my own ignorance of this period A stranger in time and space….. Some detail and nuance will be missing - hence importance of discussion and debate in response to what I have to say I was too young to remember and too far away to have seen But importance of going beyond ‘telling a story’ – facts, chronology Offering interested (and hopefully interesting!), not disinterested knowledge (or interested knowledge pretending its objective) Why & how should we reflect on this period? What is at stake in looking at the origins and development of the troubles? Some suggestions 1. -
Civil Rights and Civil Responsibilities
CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk Provided by NORA - Norwegian Open Research Archives CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL RESPONSIBILITIES HOW THE UNIONIST PARTY PERCEIVED AND RESPONDED TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN NORTHERN IRELAND 19681968----19721972 Master thesis in historhistoryy submitted at the UniversityUniversity of Bergen May 2010 His 350 Eirik Søreide Klepaker DDDepartmentDepartment of archaeoloarchaeology,gy, history, cultural studies and religion Front picture found at: http://www.nicivilrights.org/wp- content/uploads/2008/12/burntollet20march.jpg ii Thanks to Sissel Rosland, for giving me assistance and motivation when it was exceedingly needed. My Mum and Dad My fellow students iii iv Contents List of abbreviations...............................................................................................................vii CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION .................................................................................... 1 Subject outline and previous research................................................................................ 1 Main questions ................................................................................................................... 4 Political and religious labels .............................................................................................. 4 Sources ............................................................................................................................... 5 Chapter outline .................................................................................................................. -
Westminster General Election, 8 June 2017
Research and Information Service Research Paper 15 June 2017 Dr Raymond Russell Election Report: Westminster General Election, 8 June 2017 NIAR 121-17 This paper provides an analysis of the Westminster General Election held on 8 June 2017, and compares the outcome with the 2015 election. The paper also includes an analysis of voter turnout and results by party and constituency. Paper 31/17 15 June 2017 Research and Information Service briefings are compiled for the benefit of MLAs and their support staff. Authors are available to discuss the contents of these papers with Members and their staff but cannot advise members of the general public. We do, however, welcome written evidence that relate to our papers and these should be sent to the Research and Information Service, Northern Ireland Assembly, Room 139, Parliament Buildings, Belfast BT4 3XX or e-mailed to [email protected] NIAR 121-17 Research Paper Key Points The 2017 Westminster general election left the parties with the following number of seats: Democratic Unionist Party 10 Sinn Féin 7 Social Democratic and Labour Party - Ulster Unionist Party - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland - Independents 1 The DUP gained two seats, one from the UUP and the other from the SDLP, while Sinn Féin gained three seats, one from the UUP and the others at the expense of the SDLP. The DUP had the highest share of the vote, (36.0% compared with 25.7% in 2015), followed by Sinn Féin (29.4% - up from 24.5% in 2015); UUP (10.3% - down from 16.0% in 2015) and the SDLP (11.7% - down from 13.9% in 2015). -
Northern-Ireland-Time-Of-Choice.Pdf
Job Name:2274802 Date:15-06-18 PDF Page:2274802pbc.p1.pdf Color: Black PANTONE 7530 C THE AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH, established in 1943, is a publicly supported, nonpartisan research and educa tional organization. Its purpose is to assist policy makers, scholars, businessmen, the press and the public by providing objective analysis of national and inter national issues. Views expressed in the institute's publications are those of the authors and do not necessariIy reflect the views of the staff, advisory panels, officers or trustees of AEI. Institute publications take three major forms: 1. Legislative Analyses-balanced analyses of current proposals before the Congress, prepared with the help of specialists from the academic world and the fields of law and government. 2. Studies-in-depth studies and monographs about government programs and major national and international problems, written by independent scholars. 3. Rational Debates, Meetings, and Symposia-proceedings of debates, dis cussions, and conferences where eminent authorities with contrasting views discuss controversial issues. ADVISORY BOARD Paul W. McCracken, Chairman, Edmund Ezra Day University Professor of Business Administration, University of Michigan R. H. Coase, Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Milton Friedman, Paul S. Russell Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Gottfried Haberler, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research C. Lowell Harriss, Professor of Economics, Columbia University George Lenczowski, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley Robert A. Nisbet, Albert Schweitzer Professor of the Humanities, Columbia University James A. Robinson, President, University of West Florida EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Herman J. Schmidt, Chairman of the Richard J. -
Politics in the Streets
Politics in the Streets The origins of the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland by Bob Purdie (1990) Originally published by The Blackstaff Press, Belfast PDF version included on CAlN with the permission of the author http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/crightslpurdiel THE NEW OPPOSITION There's many a victory decisive and complete Has meant a sight less fighting than a hardly fought defeat; And if people do their duty, every man in his degree, Why defeat may be more glorious than a victory needs to be. quoted in the Belfact hbour Chicle, February 195 In 1945 Nationalist politicians in Northern Ireland assumed that the changed political situation put a united Ireland within their grasp. As they perceived it, the Unionists were Tories, therefore the new Labour government at Westminster was bound to oppose them. With a minimum of persuasion the Government could be brought to see that this meant supporting Irish unity. The new importance of the United States as ally and benefactor of Britain would make this more likely by giving the Irish-American lobby strong influence. It was such thinking that lay behind the creation in 1945 of the Anti-Partition League (APL),' which was set up to co-ordinate the Nationalist MPS at Stormont and to build a grass- roots political movement that would unite the entire Catholic community behind them. The APL was launched by Nationalist MPS and senators in a series of public rallies throughout the nationalist areas of Northern Ireland, beginning in January 1946. At these, the triumphs of the past and heroes long dead were summoned up to support the claim that Ireland was about to break the last fetter that tied it to the British Empire. -
Parliament and Northern Ireland, 1921-2021
BRIEFING PAPER Number CBP-8884, 21 December 2020 Parliament and Northern By David Torrance Ireland, 1921-2021 Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Historical background 3. Parliament of Northern Ireland 4. Northern Ireland, 1921-39 5. “Matters arising from a state of war”, 1939-45 6. Post-war Northern Ireland, 1945-50 7. Northern Ireland, 1950-66 8. The 1920 Act under pressure, 1966-72 9. Direct Rule, 1972-79 10. Northern Ireland, 1979-99 11. Northern Ireland, 1999-2021 Appendix 1: Government of Ireland Act 1920 timeline Appendix 2: Political leaders in Northern Ireland Appendix 3: Selected bibliography www.parliament.uk/commons-library | intranet.parliament.uk/commons-library | [email protected] | @commonslibrary 2 Parliament and Northern Ireland, 1921-2021 Contents 1. Introduction 6 2. Historical background 8 2.1 Third Home Rule Bill 8 2.2 Origins of partition 9 2.3 Government of Ireland Act 1914 11 2.4 New proposals 12 2.5 Government of Ireland Bill 14 2.6 An Act to “provide for the better Government of Ireland” 16 Powers 17 Restrictions 19 Financial provisions 19 Refusal to work the Act 20 Sovereignty 20 2.7 The 1920 Act as a “constitution” 21 2.8 Creating the new “state” 21 2.9 Elections to the Northern Parliament 23 2.10 First meetings of Parliament 24 State opening 25 2.11 Parliament of Southern Ireland 26 2.12 Negotiations 27 2.13 Anglo-Irish Treaty 29 2.14 The Irish Free State and “Ulster Month” 31 3. Parliament of Northern Ireland 34 3.1 House of Commons 34 3.2 Senate of Northern Ireland 36 3.3 Governor of Northern Ireland 37 3.4 Privy Council and Great Seal of Northern Ireland 40 3.5 Stormont 41 3.6 Royal Courts of Justice 43 3.7 Northern Ireland Civil Service 44 3.8 Representation at Westminster 46 3.9 Northern Ireland MPs at Westminster 46 3.10 Irish Boundary Commission, 1924-25 47 3.11 Changes to Royal Titles 50 4. -
Civil Rights and Civil Responsibilities
CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL RESPONSIBILITIES HOW THE UNIONIST PARTY PERCEIVED AND RESPONDED TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN NORTHERN IRELAND 19681968----19721972 Master thesis in historhistoryy submitted at the UniversityUniversity of Bergen May 2010 His 350 Eirik Søreide Klepaker DDDepartmentDepartment of archaeoloarchaeology,gy, history, cultural studies and religion Front picture found at: http://www.nicivilrights.org/wp- content/uploads/2008/12/burntollet20march.jpg ii Thanks to Sissel Rosland, for giving me assistance and motivation when it was exceedingly needed. My Mum and Dad My fellow students iii iv Contents List of abbreviations...............................................................................................................vii CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION .................................................................................... 1 Subject outline and previous research................................................................................ 1 Main questions ................................................................................................................... 4 Political and religious labels .............................................................................................. 4 Sources ............................................................................................................................... 5 Chapter outline ................................................................................................................... 6 Historical context: The formation of -
Members of the House of Commons Since 1979
BRIEFING PAPER Number CBP 8256, 13 March 2018 Members of the House of By Chris Watson Commons since 1979 Mark Fawcett Contents: 1. Background 2. All Members of the House of Commons since the 1979 General Election www.parliament.uk/commons-library | intranet.parliament.uk/commons-library | [email protected] | @commonslibrary ii Members of the House of Commons since 1979 Contents Summary iii Glossary iv 1. Background vii 1.1 Gender vii 1.2 Age viii 1.3 Ethnicity ix 1.4 Occupation x 2. All Members of the House of Commons since the 1979 General Election xi A 1 B 8 C 33 D 53 E 65 F 70 G 80 H 93 I 115 J 116 K 124 L 130 M 142 N 171 O 174 P 178 Q 189 R 189 S 201 T 222 U 231 V 232 W 233 Y 250 Z 251 Contributing Authors: Oliver Hawkins, Richard Cracknell, Lucinda Maer, Richard Kelly, Mark Sandford, Neil Johnston, Hazel Armstrong, Sarah Priddy, Paul Little Cover page image copyright : Attributed to: Theresa May's first PMQs as Prime Minister by UK Parliament. Licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 / image cropped. iii Commons Library Briefing, 13 March 2018 Summary Since the 1979 General Election, there have been 2,128 people elected to the House of Commons. Of these, 403 have been women and 1,725 have been men. This publication lists all Members of the House of Commons starting from the 1979 General Election which took place on the 3 May. It is a new edition of our 2010 publication.