Northern Ireland Archive
Tape Name
Tom Fraser Intro to the Issues
Date of Film
2015
Description
Fraser gives a history of Northern Ireland, the geopolitics of Northern Ireland's geographic and political relationship to the United Kingdom, and the historic relationships between Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and England and also the historic relationship between Catholics and Protestants. This lecture is meant to take students up to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement and the period of the Troubles, which began in 1968. History from that time point forward is given on the Paul Arthur tapes available elsewhere in this archive.
Keywords
British defense perimeter, back door to England, January 1801, Union flag, full Catholic emancipation, Great Famine, Flight of the Earls, Lough Swilley, Londonderry, Doire, plantation, shirt and textile factories, shipyards, Belfast, British empire, globalization, Siege of Derry, King James II, William III, Apprentice Boys of Derry, Orange Order, British defense perimeter, back door to England, January 1801, Union flag, full Catholic emancipation, Great Famine, Flight of the Earls, Lough Swilley, Londonderry, Doire, plantation, shirt and textile factories, shipyards, Belfast, British empire, globalization, Siege of Derry, King James II, William III, Apprentice Boys of Derry, Orange Order, Irish Assembly (1916); Irish Republican Army; republicans; nationalists; unionists; Irish Free State; Ulster Volunteer Force; 36 Ulster Division; Battle of the Somme; Stormont; Orange Order; Apprentice Boys of Derry; Londonderry Corporation; Portadown; Battle of the Bogside; Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association; Wall Street Crash of 1929; British Welfare State; Éamon de Valera; August 12, 1969; August 14, 1969; peace walls; Provisional IRA; People’s Democracy; Free Derry corner; Loch Swilly
Rights
yes
Subject/ Interviewee
Tom Fraser
Topics covered
contested society, 1998 peace agreement, nationalism, unionism,History of the Troubles in Northern Ireland
Video characteristics
This single tape is a combination of three single tapes shot of this single two-hour talk. Fraser stands behind a lectern with the shot of the upper half of his body. Lighting and sound are good although it is easier to understand the talk if one reads along in the transcript of the talk.