My second post on Slugger O’Toole’s Political Innovation (Un)Conference, on ‘Engaging Grassroots Unionism?’, is now up on the Slugger O’Toole blog.… Read more...
Category: Unionism
Evangelical Journeys: In Conversation with the Centre for Contemporary Christianity
Claire Mitchell and I took part in an ‘In Conversation’ event at the Centre for Contemporary Christianity in Ireland in Belfast on Tuesday 19 October 2010. We spoke about our forthcoming book, Evangelical Journeys: Choice and Change in a Northern … Read more...
Tinderbox Theatre’s True North: Raising Questions that Northern Ireland isn’t Ready to Answer?
Belfast’s Tinderbox Theatre concluded its series of three ‘Truth North’ productions this weekend. I attended two of the plays, ‘God’s Country’ and ‘Everything Between Us,’ with students on our master’s programme in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation.
Kathy Clarke’s review of … Read more...
God’s Country: Review of Tinderbox Theatre ‘True North’ Production
Is religion preventing people from the LGBT community living full and happy lives in Northern Ireland? That’s a question at the heart of ‘God’s Country,’ a new play by Colin Bell.
The play is part of Tinderbox Theatre’s True North … Read more...
Dissident Republicans: Does Sympathy Equal “Support”?
The results of a survey released yesterday in a conference at Queen’s University Belfast and presented again today at the Annual Meeting of the Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI) in Dublin reveal that 14 % of nationalists ‘had sympathy … Read more...
Ulster Scots & Presbyterianism: Does Denomination Matter?
In response to my recent post, In Search of the Ulster Scot, some people have commented that the Ulster Scots identity and language is not just for Presbyterians. Others have said that the Ulster Scots identity fails to capture the … Read more...
The News Letter’s Union 2021: Is a New Northern Irish Identity Possible?
The Belfast News Letter’s ‘Union 2021’ series has canvassed a range of unionist and other commentators to assess the state of the union, as it were, and put forward some ideas about making Northern Ireland a better place.
In Search of the Ulster Scot: Has an Identity Been Manufactured?
Is there any such thing as an Ulster Scot? The emergence of ‘Ulster Scots’ as a language, and as an ethnic group, has been controversial to say the least. Critics have alleged that Ulster Scots is a made-up language, manufactured … Read more...