Memorials and Marching: Archaeological Insights into Segregation in Contemporary Northern Ireland

McAtackney, Laura

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“…The persistence of singular versions of a complex history (McAtackney, 2015) is understandable in what, for many, is a live issue. The struggle did not end with the Good Friday Agreement.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The role of ex-paramilitaries and former prisoners in political tourism

Nisbett

Rapson

2020

Political Geography

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“…The persistence of singular versions of a complex history (McAtackney, 2015) is understandable in what, for many, is a live issue. The struggle did not end with the Good Friday Agreement.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The role of ex-paramilitaries and former prisoners in political tourism

Nisbett

Rapson

2020

Political Geography

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“…These were the only times that Angie and Ellie recalled interacting with their Catholic peers. The children lived in different neighborhoods and attended different schools, churches, and social events (Dixon et al 2020;Jarman 1997;McAtackney 2015).…”

Section: Learning About Identity and The Troublesmentioning

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“…This includes economic zones of poverty where, to draw on Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson's reinterpretation of Arjun Appadurai's phrase (1981), young people experience "'spatial incarceration '" (1997, 47). In Northern Ireland, this is not only on account of poverty but to the continuing segregation of working-class housing estates (McAtackney 2015;Mitchell 2006).…”

Section: Leaving Shankill: Young Adult Identity and Belongingmentioning

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Past Violence and Present Belonging in Belfast: Two Sisters Remember their Childhood Experiences with Paramilitary Violence on Shankill Road

Brady

2021

Anthropology and Humanism

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Belonging is a shifting concept in Northern Ireland as demographics change and people seek to move past the violence of the Troubles. For older adults in the two majority communities, especially in the lower-income areas most impacted by the Troubles, belonging can illustrate a sectarian divide over group identity: one is either an Irish Catholic or a British Protestant. Young adults who grow up in these hard-hit neighborhoods, still struggling with high unemployment and low school completion rates, must also find a place for themselves. I explore constructions of identity and belonging in the narratives of two sisters, Angie and Ellie, who grew up in one such neighborhood, the predominantly Protestant Shankill Road in Belfast, in the last decades of the Troubles. Their childhood and adolescent recollections include IRA bombings and extreme security measures, but it was the violence of the loyalist paramilitaries affiliated with their own community that most influenced their present constructions of personal identity and sense of belonging to the wider Protestant community. [Northern Ireland, belonging, paramilitary violence, childhood memory, personal identity, narratives]It was a nightmare, and it was always that the IRA were chasing me. And it was like Glencairn, which is off where we used to live. But it's, it's closed. There's only one road in and one road out. So, when you got to the top of the road, in my dream, there was always a big wall, a big massive wall that you have to climb. And I couldn't climb over it, and the IRA were coming, but they were coming in full balaclava gear with the guns. Or else I could get over [the wall], but one of the members of my family couldn't get over it, and then I had to go back for them. So, I had that-and up until recently, I still-up until about a couple of years ago, I would still have that. But it was so, so real, and you would wake up in the middle of the night, you'd be covered in sweat. Yeah, it was so real.-Angie Reconciliation continues to be a struggle in Northern Ireland, particularly in the lower-income areas where the violence of the ethnoreligious and political conflict known as the Troubles was concentrated (Farry 2006;Knox 2016). While the Troubles officially ended in 1998 with the Good Friday Agreement (GFA), implementation of the framework agreement and its successors has been rocky. The state's slow economic recovery, cycles of political instability, and splinter

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“…These include rich and varied approaches to the study of borders, borderlands and frontiers in the contemporary world in both material and metaphorical terms (e.g. McAtackney 2015;McWilliams 2013). Due to the nature of borderlands and frontiers, this topic can also cover discussions around imperialism and nationalism.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Offa’s Dyke Collaboratory and the Offa’s Dyke Journal

Williams

Delaney

2019

OD Journal

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Opening the first volume of a new open-access peer-reviewed academic publication, we are pleased to introduce the Offa’s Dyke Journal. This venture stems from the activities of the Offa’s Dyke Collaboratory, a research network founded in April 2017 to foster and support new research on the monuments and landscapes of the Anglo-Welsh borderlands and comparative studies of borderlands and frontiers from prehistory to the present. The proceedings of a series of academic and public-facing events have informed the character and direction of the Journal. Moreover, its establishment coincides with the Cadw/Historic England/Offa’s Dyke Association-funded Offa’s Dyke Conservation Management Plan as well as other new community and research projects on linear earthworks. Funded by the University of Chester and the Offa’s Dyke Association, and published online by JAS Arqueologia and print-distributed by Archaeopress, the journal aims to provide a resource for scholars, students and the wider public regarding the archaeology, heritage and history of the Welsh Marches and its linear monuments. It also delivers a much-needed venue for interdisciplinary studies from other times and places.

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Memorials and Marching: Archaeological Insights into Segregation in Contemporary Northern Ireland

Cited by 6 publications

References 13 publications

The role of ex-paramilitaries and former prisoners in political tourism

The role of ex-paramilitaries and former prisoners in political tourism

Past Violence and Present Belonging in Belfast: Two Sisters Remember their Childhood Experiences with Paramilitary Violence on Shankill Road

The Offa’s Dyke Collaboratory and the Offa’s Dyke Journal

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