Week 12

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Topics

An Irish Renaissance?
The Search for Peace in Northern Ireland

Tutorial Focus Questions

Class discussion

Essential Reading

Ruane, Joseph, ‘The end of (Irish) history?: Three readings of the current conjuncture’, in Joseph Ruane and Jennifer Todd (eds.), After the Good Friday agreement: Analysing political change in Northern Ireland (Dublin, 1999), pp.145–69.

Recommended Readings

Arthur, Paul, Special Relationships: Britain, Ireland and the Northern Ireland Problem (Belfast, 2000) [short loan].
Boyce, D. George and Alan O’Day (eds.), Defenders of the Union: a survey of British and Irish Unionism since 1801 (London, 2001) [short loan].
Elliott, Marianne, The Catholics of Ulster (New York, 2001) [short loan].
Keogh, Dermot and Michael H. Haltzen (eds.), Northern Ireland and the politics of reconciliation (Cambridge, 1993).
Loughlin, James, The Ulster question since 1945 (New York, 1998) [short loan].
Mallie, Eamonn and David McKittrick, Endgame in Ireland (London, 2001) [short loan].
Ruane, Joseph, and Jennifer Todd (eds.), After the Good Friday agreement: Analysing political change in Northern Ireland (Dublin, 1999) [short loan].
———. The dynamics of conflict in Northern Ireland: power, conflict, and emancipation (Cambridge, 1996) [short loan].
Wichert, Sabine, Northern Ireland since 1945 (2nd ed., London, 1999) [short loan].

Lecture Outline

An Irish Renaissance?

The 'New Ireland', 1960s-1980s
Second Vatican Council (1962-65)
Pope John XXIII
Fianna Fáil
Fine Gael
Charles Houghey
Albert Reynolds
Garrett FitzGerald
Liam Cosgrave
John Hume
SDLP
Bertie Ahern
Taoiseach
Mary McAleese






The Search for Peace in Northern Ireland

1. The Republic and the North
2. Beyond the Maze
3. Good Friday and its ramifications

Sean Lemass
Terence O'Neill
Liam Cosgrave
Brian Faulkner
John Hume's Social Democratic and Labor Party (SDLP)
William Whitelaw
Sunningdale Agreement
Armalite and Ballot Box
Merlyn Rees
1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement
Albert Reynolds
Downing Street Declaration
Canary Wharf Bombing
David Trimble
Bertie Ahern
Tony Blair
Referendum Approved 
     71.2% in Northern Ireland
     94.4% in Irish Republic