Decommissioning issues its last loss of all seats in general election; IBIS Update report, recording the appointment to House of Lords decommissioning of weapons by the announced 19 November. IBIS Newsletter Michael Anderson, Government of Ulster Defence Association, the Irish 20 May: Prime Minister David Institute for British-Irish Studies Ireland Doctoral Scholar, has National Liberation Army and the Cameron visits Belfast and announces completed his PhD thesis on identity (Official) Irish Republican Army. that Stormont can defer spending shift among working class loyalists in 19 March: The British government cuts for a year. Secretary of State the conflict transformation period. announces that the Saville Report Owen Paterson says that Northern The study draws attention to the fact into Bloody Sunday will not be Ireland’s public sector accounts for Spring 2011 that the decline in indicators of social published until after the general 75% of the economy and is unsus- well-being, including educational election. Dissident republicans are tainable in the long-term. Issue 14 participation, employment and social blamed for a series of bomb scares cohesion, is undermining how 10 June: The Saville Report on Bloody across Northern Ireland that brings loyalists feel about themselves and Sunday is published. It finds that the traffic to a standstill in Derry and their role in society. The loss of their victims were unarmed and posed no Belfast. industrial prowess is accelerating threat to the armed forces. It Contents feelings of uncertainty and a loss of 25 March: Lady Sylvia Hermon concludes that the killings occurred confidence. This, the study argues, is resigns from the Ulster Unionist Party not as a result of premeditated leading to perceptions of (UUP) and announces that she will activity, but due to the actions of the IBIS Events marginalisation and alienation that contest her North Down seat as an individual soldiers. Prime Minister are steadily undermining their independent. Cameron apologises for ‘unjustified IBIS Annual Conference 2010 1 and unjustifiable’ events. support for the institutions and 30 March: Police Service of Northern IBIS / Stratagem Seminar 2 structures of the state in the post- Ireland (PSNI) Chief Constable, Matt 22 September: Tom Elliott is elected Breaking Patterns Conference Agreement era. Baggott, announces that he intends leader of UUP. to wind up the Historical Enquiries and Workshop 2 Professor Tom Garvin continues as 6 November: Three PSNI officers are Team within three years. The team An Taoiseach, Mr Brian Cowen, TD is welcomed by Dr Hugh Brady, honorary research fellow at IBIS and injured after a grenade is thrown at Upcoming Events 2 was set up in September 2005 to UCD President, to the IBIS Annual Conference has recently published a book entitled them as they were investigating a investigate the unsolved murders News from a new Republic, a study robbery on Shaw’s Road in west committed during the Troubles. of Dublin journalism in the 1950s. An Belfast. Óglaigh na hÉireann claims IBIS News interpretative narrative, based largely At the beginning of a decade of 6 April: Prime Minister Gordon responsibility. IBIS Research 3 IBIS Annual on a close reading of contemporary Brown announces that the British centenaries, it is necessary, as Dr 7 December: Sinn Féin leader and newspaper reports and analyses, it general election will take place on 6 IBIS Blog 3 Conference 2010 Hugh Brady, UCD President noted in identifies the primary causes of the West Belfast MP Gerry Adams stands his welcome speech, ‘to understand May. Latest Working Papers 3 calamity as a revolutionary down from his Westminster seat to ‘For most of the last century when we and explain how these conflicts were 12 April: A dissident republican group, contest the Louth seat in the Dáil gerontocracy that overstayed its Institutional Repository 3 looked across the border, we saw and generated, and to do so in a way that welcome; the blocking power of Óglaigh na hÉireann, claims elections. were wary of the “other”. We forced allows all of us, in both parts of the responsibility for detonating a car Policy Analysis 3 powerful special interest groups who 2011 each other into making choices, into island, and indeed in Britain, to move bomb outside the MI5 headquarters alone benefited from economic IBIS Update 4 defining ourselves in exclusive terms. beyond the causes of conflict and to 20 January: Sinn Féin’s Conor Murphy protection; and an ideology of rural at Palace Barracks in Holywood, We failed to recognise that, even use the experience to help those resists calls for his resignation as frugality, buttressed by an under County Down. though we have different traditions caught in conflict in other parts of the Minister for Regional Development developed educational system and 22 April: Three people are injured British-Irish Developments and perspectives, what we share is globe’. following over 40,000 homes being supported by the moral monopoly of when a car bomb explodes at much more important than what left without water over the holiday Chronology 4 Mr Nelson McCausland, MLA, Minister the Catholic Church. Newtownhamilton PSNI station. separates us.’ period. Northern Ireland Water chief for Culture, addressed the audience 6 May: In election to UK House of executive had already resigned. The Taoiseach, Mr Brian Cowen, TD on the topic of a ‘shared future’, Commons, Conservatives make thus addressed the audience at the noting that ‘while these anniversaries British-Irish Developments 24-27 January: Antrim Road in significant gains and go on to form IBIS annual conference on 20 May are to be welcomed as opportunities Belfast is closed after three bomb coalition government with the Liberal 2010. Entitled A Decade of for celebration, commemoration and threats. Approximately 100 homes Chronology Democrats; in Northern Ireland, the Centenaries: Commemorating inspiration’, they are also and businesses are evacuated. Shared History, the conference, 2010 DUP suffers some losses, including ‘opportunities to examine, re- the seat of party leader Peter 30 January: The last Bloody Sunday Institute for British-Irish Studies focused on shared commemoration evaluate and interrogate the past.’ 22 February: The Real Irish Republican march is held. of a decade of upcoming centenaries Robinson, won by Naomi Long University College Dublin This was the third annual conference Army (RIRA) is blamed for exploding a including the 1916 rising, the War of (Alliance Party). Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland organised by IBIS in association with car bomb outside a courthouse in Independence and the Great War. The 12 May: Owen Paterson takes over the Department of the Taoiseach. Newry. This was the first successful Would you like to receive regular T: +353-1-716 8670 theme of the conference was our from Shaun Woodward as Secretary Academic and media speakers at the car bomb attack in Northern Ireland information on IBIS activities, F: +353-1-716 1171 interpretation of history and how the of State for Northern Ireland. conference included: David Adams, Ian since 2000. publications, lectures, etc? [email protected] conflicts of the past define how we Adamson, Brian Feeney, David Hoey, 15 May: Sir Reg Empey announces Send us your details attempt to regulate and transform 25 February: The Independent www.ucd.ie/ibis John Horne, Tony Kennedy, Brigid resignation as UUP leader following Email: [email protected] conflict in the future, both locally and International Commission on Laffan, Evanthia Lyons, Marc in a global context. the Humanities and Social Sciences, themed event – Culture after these debates will be housed in the 105 David Adams the Conflict Resolution Unit of the Conflict: Between Remembrance UCD archive for future research. Perceptions and memories Dept of Foreign Affairs and the DFA and Reconciliation – at the Ulster of the Great War Another research project, Patterns of Reconciliation Fund. Museum, Belfast. The event aims to Conflict Resolution: Mechanisms 106 John Horne create a forum to facilitate discussion and Sequences of Peace Making and Commemorating the and debate on the role of culture in Peace Building. How to Draw centenary of the Great War Breaking Patterns remembering the Northern Irish Lessons from Northern Ireland, also and the division of Ireland: a conflict and fostering reconciliation Conference and Workshop drew to a close, in December 2010. European perspective and peace. Taking a multifaceted Funded by the Conflict Resolution approach to ‘peace process culture’ by 107 Patrick Paul Walsh and Nelson McCausland, MLA, speaking at A conference, based on the Breaking Unit of the Department of Foreign considering various art forms and Ciara Whelan the IBIS Annual Conference 2010 Patterns research project, described Affairs via the Irish Research Council media, such as photography, Stathis Kalyvas, who will give an evening Hirschman and Irish below, was held at UCD on Friday 12 for the Humanities and Social Mulholland, Margaret O’Callaghan, performance, drama, film and visual lecture on 6 April at UCD industrial policy March, 2010. It was initiated to build Sciences, this project built on research Daltύn Ó Ceallaigh, John O’Dowd, art, this one-day conference brings on findings from the project, which conducted at IBIS on the succession Ronnie Pedlow, Sir George Quigley together artists from different back- In addition to the working papers a aims to assess how British and Irish IBIS Research of attempts at conflict resolution in and Bill Rolston. grounds and practices to reflect upon series of Discussion Papers on the policy promoted and instigated Ireland and Northern Ireland. Final The full speeches by Mr Cowen, Dr the complexities of the different themes of Politics and Identity, change in the patterns of conflict in IBIS continues to host a well- papers from the project, in addition to Brady, Sir George Quigley and Mr approaches to conflict resolution and Breaking Patterns of Conflict and Northern Ireland.