Some of the Irish public servants and political advisers who worked on the Northern Ireland peace process from the late 1960s until the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 discuss their roles and involvement in the process.
Noel Dorr looks back at the period which led up to Sunningdale, at the Conference itself and its outcome, at the short life of the new political institutions and at some of the reasons why this initiative, born in hope, did not succeed. He concentrates on the policies of the Irish Government – indeed two successive Irish Governments – and how they evolved over the years 1969 to early 1974.
This special volume of Irish Studies in International Affairs has been produced by the Royal Irish Academy to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
A comprehensive account of Irish tiles, detailing their manufacture, the main types and decorative techniques, it also gives a full inventory of the 88 sites where tiles have been located, a descriptive catalogue and visual index of the 505 known designs.
This book explores the origin and evolution of the concepts of citizenship and identity in Ireland from a broadly historical perspective, tracing their development in terms of rights and duties, from classical times, through the medieval period and the era partition in Ireland, to the present difficulties surrounding Brexit and the refugee crisis.
The ancient burial sites of Knowth, Newgrange and Dowth make up the archaeological complex at Brugh na Boinne, a UNESCO world heritage site which has attracted enormous international interest.
Nazi gold, fugitive war criminals, the threat of nuclear war and the growing dominance of Communism, issues dealt with by the Irish diplomats in the years immediately after the Second World War, are central themes in Volume VIII.
Volume II covers the first, warring years of the Irish Free State and includes: an account of the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations; letters from Michael Collins, Eamon de Valera and others; despatches and political reports from Irish diplomats in Europe and America and the Irish appeal to the Paris Peace Conference for recognition in 1919.
"Few places on Earth, and none elsewhere in Ireland, have yielded such a concentrated inventory of knowledge about the natural world." Michael Viney One hundred years ago, Irish naturalist Robert Lloyd Praeger led a survey of the natural history and cultural heritage of Clare Island at a level of detail greater than any area of comparable size at that time. Almost a century later, the Royal Irish Academy set about repeating the exercise with the intention of assessing and evaluating change on the island over the intervening years.