Great men and straight men?
Parfitt, Richard. In Musical culture and the spirit of Irish nationalism, 1848–1972. 59-79. Routledge, 2019. In this chapter, Richard Parfitt examines the use of music by different nationalist factions in Ireland…
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What people in the Republic actually think about Irish unification: Preference for a five-to-ten-year timeframe for a vote on a clear model for unity
Garry, John, Paul Gillespie, Brendan O’Leary. The Irish Times. September 23, 2021. https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/what-people-in-the-republic-actually-think-about-irish-unification-1.4681111 (accessed 18 March,…
In Sri Lanka, a perpetrator state demands non-violence
Vindhya Buthpitiya (2022) The Urban Violence Research Network. Available at: https://urbanviolence.org/perpetrator-state/ (Accessed: March 16, 2023). In this short piece, Buthpitiya is introducing an extremely…
Three Stories
Luis Borges, Jorge, The New Yorker, Dec 30, 1966 This entry to the library from The New Yorker is a collection of three short works of fiction by the South American author Jorge Luis Borges, with the first two…
The solitude of Latin America
García Márquez, Gabriel, The Nobel Prize, Dec 8, 1982. This entry to the library contains a translation into English of Gabriel Gárcia Márquez’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1982. As a globally…
History, Myth, and Archetype in Borges’s View of Argentina
Britton, R. K. The Modern Language Review 74, no. 3 (1979): 607–16. ‘‘History, Myth and Archetype in Borges’s View of Argentina” is an article written by R. K Britton and published in The Modern Language Review on the…
NOVEL TRUTHS: LITERATURE AND TRUTH COMMISSIONS
Gready, Paul. Comparative Literature Studies 46, no. 1 (2009): 156–76. ‘Novel Truths: Literature and Truth Commissions’ is an article that was written by Paul Gready and published by Penn State University Press in…
How was your trip? Self-care for researchers working and writing on violence
Theidon, Kimberly. 2014. In Drugs, Security and Democracy Program Working Papers on Research Security 2: 1-20. In this article, Kimberly Theidon shines a light on the immense emotional weight that comes with carrying…
Peacebuilding and reconciliation through storytelling in Northern Ireland and the border counties of the Republic of Ireland
Maiangwa, Benjamin, and Sean Byrne. Storytelling, Self, Society 11, no. 1 (2015): 85-110. The article begins by setting out the context of Northern Ireland following the Good Friday Agreement, arguing that the region…
Among the Ruins
Berman, Michael. New Internationalist (December 1987). In this article, philosopher Marshall Berman discusses urban blight, not from a scholarly perspective, but from a personal one. He reflects on returning to the…