Pub Date : 2021-03-18DOI: 10.1080/07907184.2021.1902667
G. Spencer
Since the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 numerous proposals have been put forward concerning legacy processes that can help Northern Ireland move on from its violent past to a more stable and positi...
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Pub Date : 2021-02-24DOI: 10.1080/07907184.2021.1891805
Niall Gilmartin
Take down policy The Research Portal is Ulster University's institutional repository that provides access to Ulster's research outputs. Every effort has been made to ensure that content in the Research Portal does not infringe any person's rights, or applicable UK laws. If you discover content in the Research Portal that you believe breaches copyright or violates any law, please contact pure-support@ulster.ac.uk.
{"title":"One man’s terrorist. A political history of the IRA","authors":"Niall Gilmartin","doi":"10.1080/07907184.2021.1891805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07907184.2021.1891805","url":null,"abstract":"Take down policy The Research Portal is Ulster University's institutional repository that provides access to Ulster's research outputs. Every effort has been made to ensure that content in the Research Portal does not infringe any person's rights, or applicable UK laws. If you discover content in the Research Portal that you believe breaches copyright or violates any law, please contact pure-support@ulster.ac.uk.","PeriodicalId":45746,"journal":{"name":"Irish Political Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"615 - 616"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07907184.2021.1891805","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41521638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-02-09DOI: 10.1080/07907184.2021.1880392
Angie Gago
ABSTRACT One of the consequences of the Eurozone crisis was the collapse of social concertation. Some authors have explained that the need for fiscal retrenchment deprived governments of resources to offer concessions to trade unions (Regan, 2013). Although these explanations partly explain why social partnership ended, we do not yet know how political actors achieved this institutional change, neither which ideas they used to legitimate it. This article adopts a discursive institutionalist framework (Schmidt, 2008, 2010) to identify the ideas and the causal mechanisms through which political leaders were able to exercise ideational power in a paradigmatic case study: Ireland. The article argues that external constraints during the crisis empowered specific political actors that used the crisis as a ‘moment of political opportunity’ (Béland, 2005, p. 10) to end the social partnership model. They constructed a communicative discourse to legitimise this change based on the ideas that social partnership was dysfunctional and undemocratic.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-09DOI: 10.1080/07907184.2021.1884946
Michael Kennedy
Elkink, J. A., & Farrell, D. M.2021). The Irish national election study 2020 [special issue]. Irish Political Studies, 36(4). Field, L. (2020). Irish general election 2020: Two-and-a-half party system no more? Irish Political Studies, 35(4), 615–636. Little, C. (2021). Change gradually, then all at once: The general election of February 2020 in the republic of Ireland. West European Politics, 44(3), 714–723. Müller, S., & Regan, A. (2021). Are Irish voters moving to the left? Irish Political Studies, 36(4), 535–555.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-17DOI: 10.1080/07907184.2021.1873281
M. O’Brien
ABSTRACT As with the United States and Great Britain there has been a markedincrease in the prevalence of political sex scandal themed stories reported on by Irish media since the 1990s. This article considers the concept of the political sex scandal, and its relationship with media in the Irish case. It argues that political sex scandal was a frequent part of Irish journalism pre-independence but that, post-independence, this approach was replaced with a reticence to report such scandal until the 1990s. It finds that,today, Irish media avoid reporting on the private lives of politicians and instead focus on incidents wherein politicians intervene in sex-related court cases, when politicians are caught acting inappropriately on camera and on when politicians engage in matters sexual on social media. Thus, unlike the US and Britain, the key structural characteristic of contemporary Irish political sex scandals is not media intrusion into the private lives of politicians but rather media oversight of when and how politicians engage in sex-related issues in public fora such as the judicial system and social media.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/07907184.2021.1877899
S. O’Neill
ABSTRACT Although the impact Brexit might have on Ireland has generated a vast array of critical analyses, insufficient attention has been paid to this project as a question of justice or a matter of potential injustice. It is suggested here that the relative academic silence on this moral dimension of Brexit is connected to a widespread failure to connect theory and practice within the dominant approach to conceptualising the demands of justice both within and beyond the state. If we are to grasp the fabric of justice today, including just relations between political communities, then we need to be less reliant on methods of rational abstraction and focus instead on the history and structure of those hierarchical relations between the peoples of the world that have been imposed throughout the colonial and neo-colonial eras. This will lead us to re-conceive justice among the world’s peoples as a project of substantive decolonisation, an alternative paradigm that offers a critical perspective on how best to address the legacy of historical injustice at a global level. This theoretical framework equips us too with the language required to assess the moral dimensions of Brexit, specifically in relation to its impact on Ireland.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/07907184.2021.1877900
J. Ruane
ABSTRACT Ireland's Catholic-Protestant conflict rests on multiple, overlapping differences: religious, ethnic, colonial, political. To better understand it, and in particular its religious aspect, I trace Europe's long Catholic-Protestant conflict, how it began, reproduced itself over time, and finally came to an end in the twentieth century. I then use this to generate insights into Ireland's long conflict, how it began, how it developed, why it ended in the Republic, why it has continued in Northern Ireland, and how the latter conflict might end.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/07907184.2021.1877898
T. O’Keefe
ABSTRACT While gender has been widely used as an analytical category to understand the dynamics of conflict transformation in Northern Ireland, surprisingly little has been written on the ways in which the conflict has shaped or constrained feminist organising. Singular focus on groups or initiatives like the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition, Peace People or the Women's Support Network has overshadowed the contested history and intricacies of the wider feminist movement. Adopting a more holistic view, this article takes the concept of ‘bridge-builders' as conceptualised by Ruane and Todd in The Dynamics of Conflict in Northern Ireland (1996) to examine the fractured development of the feminist movement in the North. It charts how ‘bridge-builder feminism' became a distinguishable feature of the feminist movement during the Troubles and was used as a mechanism to transgress what Todd calls the ‘grammars of nationality’ (Todd, 2015). I argue that although this organising approach pioneered some changes in Northern Irish society, it overlooked key feminist struggles and thrived at the expense of an inclusive, intersectional feminism. Though the movement has undergone significant changes in the last two decades, the legacy of bridge-builder feminism continues to impact the capacities of the movement to address key feminist issues.
虽然性别被广泛用作理解北爱尔兰冲突转变动态的分析类别，但令人惊讶的是，关于冲突塑造或限制女权主义组织的方式的文章很少。对北爱尔兰妇女联盟(Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition)、和平人士(Peace People)或妇女支持网络(Women’s Support Network)等团体或倡议的单一关注，掩盖了更广泛的女权运动的争议历史和复杂性。采用更全面的观点，本文采用Ruane和Todd在《北爱尔兰冲突的动态》(1996)中提出的“桥梁建设者”的概念来考察北爱尔兰女权运动的断裂发展。它描绘了“桥梁建设者女权主义”如何在“麻烦”期间成为女权主义运动的一个显著特征，并被用作违反托德所说的“国籍语法”的机制(托德，2015)。我认为，尽管这种组织方式在北爱尔兰社会中开创了一些变革，但它忽视了关键的女权主义斗争，并以牺牲包容、交叉的女权主义为代价而蓬勃发展。尽管女权运动在过去二十年中经历了重大变化，但桥梁建设者女权主义的遗产继续影响着女权运动解决关键女权主义问题的能力。
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/07907184.2021.1877893
Gladys Ganiel
ABSTRACT This article proposes a preliminary theoretical framework for understanding the role of prayer in faith-based peacebuilding. The framework draws on research on the life of a Redemptorist priest, Fr Gerry Reynolds (1935–2015), who was based in Belfast’s Clonard Monastery (1983–2015) during the Troubles; and recent interdisciplinary scholarship on prayer, utilising Woodhead’s [(2015). Conclusion: Prayer as changing the subject. In G. Giordan, & L. Woodhead (Eds.), A sociology of prayer (pp. 213–230). Farnham: Ashgate] re-definition of prayer as ‘changing the subject’. The framework encompasses two individual effects of prayer: (1) prompting religious identity change, and (2) sustaining hope and activism during adversity; with one additional socio-political effect: (3) creating and sustaining real-world initiatives. It argues that scholars have not yet grasped how prayer functions as a resource for faith-based peacebuilders. It advocates including prayer as a variable in future research on faith-based peacebuilding, which may confirm, challenge or alter the preliminary framework.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/07907184.2021.1877894
Gladys Ganiel, David Mitchell
This volume arises out of a conference celebrating the work of Jennifer Todd, Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin. Todd has been one of the leading scholars of her generation, producing ground-breaking theoretical, empirical, and comparative work on conflict, identity, ethnicity, borders, and conflict transformation. This volume is timely not only because it provides a focal point to mark the ongoing contributions of one of the island’s pioneering scholars, but also because it provides critical analysis at a key juncture in the history of conflict and transformation on the island. The 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement in 2018 has prompted a period of reflection on the achievements and the shortcomings of the peace process. This issue provides new insights on how the politics of the peace process have unfolded over time. At the same time, the June 2016 referendum in the UK, which resulted in a decision to leave the EU, comes to fruition when the UK leaves in January 2021, a process dubbed as ‘Brexit’. Brexit threatens to destabilise the peace process, raising new questions about the Irish border, and challenging relationships within Northern Ireland, between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, and between the Republic and the UK. The diverse disciplinary backgrounds and research topics of the contributors to this volume testify to the continuing relevance of Todd’s scholarship across the broad sweep of the social sciences, including history, politics and political theory, social psychology, social anthropology, and sociology. One of the hallmarks of Todd’s work has been a refusal to accept narrow understandings of politics: she conceives of the discipline broadly, and in the process has enriched our knowledge of how politics is conducted at the highest levels of the state, as well as our understanding of how political, ethnic, social and religious identities are constructed at the grassroots. Todd also has resisted an exclusive focus on the island of Ireland, consistently using international comparisons in her work and, over the years, editing numerous publications in
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