May 2/1974 Six people were killed in a loyalist bomb attack on the Rose and Crown public house in south Belfast. 2/1984 The report of the New Ireland Forum was published. 3/1814 Louis XVIII became king of France following 22 years of revolution and conquest under Napoleon Bonaparte. 10/1994 Nelson Mandela was sworn in as … Read more
A new project currently under way at the International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE) based at the University of Ulster is seeking to preserve and make available the wide array of oral histories relating to the conflict in and about Northern Ireland. Accounts of the Conflict will consist of a digital archive, an on-line catalogue and … Read more
A campaign is under way to repatriate the personal papers of John Carvill (1854–1927), a merchant of Newry, Co. Down, held in the archives of the Paterno Library in the State College of Pennsylvania. The documents include deeds, ship mortgages, financial reports, legal advice, bound letter-books and school workbooks, and were acquired in 1970 from … Read more
The Francis Hutcheson Institute is a ‘think-tank made up of academic, political and former security personnel who combine their knowledge and expertise to develop and deliver . . . analysis of contemporary conflict situations and related economic, political and social problems around the globe’. This reporter travelled from Dublin with lots of baggage. Rather than … Read more
President Michael D. Higgins’s recent state visit to the UK completed the second half of the diplomatic choreography initiated by Queen Elizabeth II’s visit to Ireland three years ago. At every level it was a triumph, symbolising the friendship and good neighbourliness of two equal and sovereign peoples, a sovereignty in Ireland’s case hard-won by … Read more