Good Friday Accords

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• 4/2/2023
  

  Staging History to Make History: Theater and the Road to the Good Friday Agreement

  by Marilynn Richtarik

  Brian Friel's play "Making History" wasn't faithful to the facts of the life of Hugh O'Neill, a 16th century chieftain who had symbolized Irish resistance to colonization. But, as an influential artist, Friel purposefully substituted myths of cultural hybridity for myths of nationalism to make the negotiation of peace palatable to his friends in politics.

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• SOURCE: Irish Times
  8/4/2020
  

  Historians Pay Tribute: ‘Today We Live In John Hume’s Ireland, And Thank God For That’

  ‘His extraordinary impact reflects the exceptional political leader and person he was.’

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/3/2020
  

  John Hume, Nobel Laureate for Work in Northern Ireland, Dies at 83

  "In the parlance of Northern Ireland, Mr. Hume was a “nationalist” whose dream of a reunited Ireland had no place for the violence embraced by “republicans” like the I.R.A., with its armed fighters and networks of financiers, bomb-makers and sympathizers in the region and in the United States."

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• 6/28/2020
  

  The Slow Path to Police Reform in Northern Ireland

  by Donald M. Beaudette and Laura Weinstein

  It took deep reforms and patience to build trust in policing across the sectarian divide of Northern Ireland after the Good Friday Accords. Does that process have lessons for the United States?