Culture and policy in Northern Ireland. Anthropology in the public arena. EDITED BY HASTINGS DONNAN AND GRAHAM MCFARLANE. Belfast: Queen's University of Belfast, Institute of Irish Studies. 1997. xi + 242 pp. Pb. £9.95. ISBN 0 85389 690 9.

1999 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-217
Author(s):  
R. D. GRILLO
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Irish Studies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Arena ◽  
Queen's University

Maritime archaeology in Northern Ireland

Antiquity ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 76 (292) ◽  
pp. 505-511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Williams ◽  
Tom McErlean
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Maritime Archaeology ◽  
Irish Studies ◽  
Maritime Cultural Landscape ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
Strangford Lough ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Queen's University ◽  
Environment Agency

IntroductionThe study of maritime archaeology is a relatively new activity in Northern Ireland. This paper introduces the approach that has been adopted in investigating the maritime cultural landscape and takes a detailed look at the maritime archaeology of Strangford Lough.Only in the last decade has government in Northern Ireland been responsible for the management of maritime archaeology. The Department of the Environment agency, Environment and Heritage Service (EHS), administers the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973 in Northern Ireland's territorial waters. Having no knowledge of the subject and faced with the management of shipwrecks, EHS Grst created a register of known shipwrecks. A Senior Fellow, Colin Breen, was appointed in 1993 in the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen's University Belfast. Using docurnentary sourc:es such as Lloyd's List and Lloyd's Register, together with Parlianientary Sessional papers and many other documentary sources, he identified some 3000 wrecks around Northern Ireland’s short coastline (Breen 1996).

scholarly journals EDITORIAL NOTE

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. v-v
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Understanding ◽  
Editorial Note ◽  
Irish Studies ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Queen's University ◽  
Uk Higher Education ◽  
Selection Of

The slightly more diverse fare in this year's Transactions reflects two developments. First, the Society has adopted a new format for its regional visits. Whereas previously the visits to UK Higher Education Institutions were accompanied by a formal paper reading by a speaker nominated by the Society, it has been decided to offer our support to regional symposia, preferably involving more than one institution, from which we will publish a selection of papers. The first of these symposia on the subject of ‘Poverty and Welfare in Ireland, c. 1833–1948’ hosted by the Queen's University Belfast and Oxford Brookes University was held at the Institute of Irish Studies at the Queen's University Belfast on 26–7 June 2009, and three of the papers presented are published here. We have also decided that the Gresham Lectures for the Public Understanding of History founded in memory of Colin Matthew deserve a wider audience, and if appropriate, we propose to publish them in Transactions. Charles Saumerez Smith's lecture on the institutionalisation of art in the nineteenth century therefore appears in print here.

Religion and Diplomacy

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-214
Author(s):  
Livingstone Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Religious Rhetoric ◽  
Religious Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
The Public ◽  
Religious View ◽  
Public Arena ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
The World ◽  
Religious Actors

Many flashpoints of violence and conflict around the world involve religious actors both as part of the crisis and potentially part of the solution. Until recently, however, states have been slow to see a role for religion in diplomacy. In this article, which is taken from a lecture that he delivered to the London Academy of Diplomacy, the author explores the notion of faith-based diplomacy and delineates the characteristics of a faith-based diplomat. The argument is that a religious view of the world functions as a Gestalt through which events and data in the public arena are filtered. The faith-based diplomat is one whose religious knowledge and skills allow the diplomat to decode the religious rhetoric by which crises are often articulated. As in the case of Northern Ireland, peace has a chance when the rhetoric is decoded and when local religious actors are party to the diplomatic process.

J.C. Beckett: politics, faith, scholarship

2002 ◽  
Vol 33 (130) ◽  
pp. 129-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alvin Jackson
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Record ◽  
Queen's University

On 16 February 1966 James Camlin Beckett, who by that time had taught in Queen’s University Belfast for twenty-one years, confided to his diary that he found it ‘hard to stay awake for an hour long lecture’ and wondered whether ‘we also go to sleep without knowing it, when we are giving a lecture instead of receiving it’. In this, the first of the lectures commemorating Beckett’s achievement, I propose — one hopes in a passably alert state — to examine three central aspects of his life and convictions: his politics and sense of national identity, his religious life, and finally his philosophy of history. The lecture draws upon Beckett’s writings, and on his papers and diaries (which are at present housed in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland); other Beckett letters, some in private hands, have also been used.

Culture and Policy in Northern Ireland: Anthropology in the Public Arena

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 320
Author(s):  
Richard Jenkins ◽  
Hastings Donnan ◽  
Graham McFarlane
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Arena

scholarly journals Troubling Pasts: Teaching Public History in Northern Ireland

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olwen Purdue
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Public History ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Arena ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Forward Looking

Abstract This article explores the challenges and opportunities presented for the teaching and practice of public history in a post-conflict society that remains deeply divided over its past. It examines some of the negative ways in which history is used in the public arena, but also the potential of public history initiatives for building a more cohesive and forward-looking society. It examines how students can use the rich cultural landscape of Northern Ireland and engage with a wide range of experienced practitioners to learn more about the ways in which history divides; how we can negotiate these divisions over interpretations; how different communities understand, represent, and engage with their past; and why this matters.

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