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Paul Arthur Politics of the Troubles...Since the Good Friday Agreement
Carl Milofsky
This lecture focuses on how Norhtern Irish politics have evolved since the Good Friday Agreement was achieved in 1998. Paul Arthur places the current politics of Northern Ireland in the larger context of the politics of the U.K., the Republic of Ireland, and the United States. He launches this talk by discussing the political situation at the current time, 2005, and this assumes some background from viewers. It would be helpful to watch the earlier set of Paul Arthur tapes to learn the history of the Troubles from 1968 to 2000. The issue he confronts is that the extreme parties, the Democratic Unionist Party (the party of Ian Paisley) and Sinn Fein (the party of the IRA), have come to dominate Northern Irish politics. Does this mean that the extremists have taken over, squeezing out the two centrist parties (the Ulster Unionist Party [UUP] and the Social Democratic and Labour Party [SDLP]) have been squeezed out and discounted.
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Tom Fraser 2005
Carl Milofsky
Tape begins its history with Protestant and IRA ceasefires of 1994, exploring then new ways conflict would nbe given expression. The focus of the lecture is on parading in the Protestant tradition and ways that parading relates to or provokes conflict with Catholic community members.
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Tom Fraser Intro to the Issues
Carl Milofsky
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.
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Tom Fraser Murals
Carl Milofsky
News history of development of housing estates after World War II, the industrial development of N.I.
