5 October 1968 and the Beginning of the Troubles: Flashpoints, Riots and Memory

Prince, Simon

doi:10.1080/07907184.2011.636805

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“…It is ironic that just as things were falling apart in Northern Ireland due to spiralling community tensions inexorably impacting on O'Neill's political authority, outside and within the UP, the balanced approach to development that he espoused (or appropriated) was itself breaking down elsewhere in the UK. Indeed, while the start of the Troubles has been precisely located to 5 October 1968 (Prince, 2012), for Gunn (2010), the explosion at Ronan Point tower block in London in May 1968 effectively signalled the end of urban modernism in Great Britain, under which the balanced approach to development was reconciled with conservationist impulses. As Pendlebury (2001: 115, 137) emphasises, 'by the end of the decade [1960s] the writing was on the wall' for modernist planning, and, in Newcastle upon Tyne, what seemed a 'progressive and enlightened approach in 1961' to conservation and planning, appeared by the early 1970s to be 'insensitive, brutal and even philistine'.…”

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Conservation at the crossroads in Northern Ireland: Terence O'Neill and the growing concern for architectural heritage 1956–1969

Mcclelland

2016

Irish Political Studies

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Terence O'Neill maintained a keen interest in conservation and architectural heritage, but his record on these issues in government in Northern Ireland is largely unexamined. This article addresses this deficit through a comprehensive review of the existing literature reinforced by archival material, revealing the familial and other connections that O'Neill had with the conservation world and civil society organisations, including his sometimes behind-the-scenes interventions on conservation policy. The momentous impact on the existing built environment from his drive to 'transform the face of Ulster' is ultimately foregrounded, particularly the contemporary philosophy underpinning the 'balanced approach' to development that was initially favoured by progressive opinion in the early 1960s, and the effect that the destruction of familiar places had on the creation of new heritage values. However, the failure of O'Neill to introduce town and country planning legalisation akin to that existing in Great Britain frustrated the efforts of conservationists who grew increasingly vociferous in their calls for action. As in other contested areas of public policy in the 1960s in Northern Ireland, the destructive forces unleashed in the built environment threatened architectural heritage and essentially remained unchecked in the absence of timely reforms prior to Direct Rule from Westminster.

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Conservation at the crossroads in Northern Ireland: Terence O'Neill and the growing concern for architectural heritage 1956–1969

Mcclelland

2016

Irish Political Studies

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Southern

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Terrorism Studies beyond counter-counterterrorism: opening the door to Jenseits

Ó Guaire

2024

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This paper offers some lines of flight away from stagnant features of Terrorism Studies. I largely reiterate the critiques made by field leaders like Lee Jarvis, but I frame the field in a way that eases the tensions between different forms of critical scholarship which have frustrated other writers. Where others split the field into ‘traditional’ and ‘critical’ strands and admonish the ‘critical’ strand for its reticence to reflexively critique its referent objects, I suggest that Terrorism Studies can be read as a convergence of ‘Counterterrorism Studies’, ‘Critical Terrorism Studies’ and ‘The Beyond’. While the second category exists primarily to grapple with the first, relying heavily on the language and theoretical frameworks of the first, the third category troubles the very constitution of concepts like the state and the figure of the terrorist, which are the sine qua non of the first two categories.

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5 October 1968 and the Beginning of the Troubles: Flashpoints, Riots and Memory

Cited by 4 publications

References 12 publications

Conservation at the crossroads in Northern Ireland: Terence O'Neill and the growing concern for architectural heritage 1956–1969

Conservation at the crossroads in Northern Ireland: Terence O'Neill and the growing concern for architectural heritage 1956–1969

The Challenges of Policing in a Deeply Divided Society

Terrorism Studies beyond counter-counterterrorism: opening the door to Jenseits

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