Archivo etiqueta «Irlanda del Norte»
By Gareth Mulvenna, a part-time writer and academic researcher living in Northern Ireland. He graduated from Queen’s University Belfast in 2009 with a PhD in contemporary Protestant working class politics and culture (THE GUARDIAN, 26/06/11):
This week’s riots in east Belfast have been blamed by some in the loyalist community on a lack of political leadership and a subsequent alienation from the peace process. That argument doesn’t stand much scrutiny. In the year since the resignation of Progressive Unionist party leader Dawn Purvis, it has become depressingly clear among acute observers of Belfast’s loyalist communities that the loyalist paramilitary … Seguir leyendo
By Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Féin, member of the Legislative Assembly of Northern Ireland for West Belfast and abstentionist MP for West Belfast at Westminster (THE GUARDIAN, 17/07/10):
The Orange marching season in the north of Ireland always provides its share of problems. Some of it is the mundane business of finding a way through the inevitable traffic chaos that results from major Orange demonstrations. But this year, as in previous years, a small number of contentious Orange parades have been the focus for confrontation and conflict.
There is also no doubt that a tiny element of so-called … Seguir leyendo
By Nuala O’Loan, first police ombudsman between 1999 and 2007 (THE GUARDIAN, 14/07/10):
The violence of the last few days in Northern Ireland has been in marked contrast to the earlier part of this year’s marching season. The Drumcree march and many other marches passed off peacefully, or largely peacefully. Now, however, we have again seen people out on the streets rioting, we have seen police officers and members of the public injured, and we have seen shotguns, blast bombs, petrol bombs, bricks and other missiles thrown across communities and at the police. We have seen again the use … Seguir leyendo
By Pierre Ranger, a teaching assistant in the history department of Queen’s University Belfast (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 11/07/10):
To an outsider, even a sympathetic one, Northern Ireland feels strange at the height of the marching season. The zenith comes on July 12, when tens of thousands of Protestant men, wearing sober suits, bowler hats and orange sashes, parade through the streets to celebrate the Battle of the Boyne.
That was the victory, in central Ireland, of a Dutch Protestant king, William of Orange, over a Catholic English monarch, James II, in 1690. In these commemorations, Christianity and newer … Seguir leyendo
By Nuala O’Loan, first police ombudsman between 1999 and 2007 (THE GUARDIAN, 16/06/10):
I was in the House of Commons on 1 February 1972 when defence minister Lord Balniel said of the Bloody Sunday massacre: “In each case, soldiers fired aimed shots at men identified as gunmen or bombers … in self-defence or in defence of their comrades who were threatened. I reject entirely the suggestion that they fired indiscriminately or that they fired into a peaceful and innocent crowd.”
Thirty-eight years and £191m later, Lord Saville has stated:
“The firing by soldiers of 1 Para on
By Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Féin (THE GUARDIAN, 06/02/10):
It was another “Good Friday” in the peace process yesterday. Hillsborough Castle was the setting for the final piece of the jigsaw of devolution which saw agreement between Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionist party on the transfer of policing and justice powers and other outstanding matters arising from the Good Friday and St Andrews agreements.
Many had thought it wouldn’t, couldn’t happen. That our respective positions were too far apart. But it did, and it was achieved primarily as a result of very intense discussions between Sinn Féin … Seguir leyendo
By Denis Murray, a former BBC Ireland correspondent (THE GUARDIAN, 27/01/10):
Well, golly. Northern Ireland’s politicians can’t agree. Forget Groundhog Day – we’ve already had our deja vu. And when they can’t agree, in fly the British and Irish prime ministers to try to sort things out. And after hours and hours of talks – no deal.
The stakes for this couldn’t be higher. Even after all-night talks, Gordon Brown and Brian Cowen had to fess up to no deal. The body language of the two leaders and their facial expressions kind of said: what on earth are we … Seguir leyendo
By Mick Fealty, the founder of the Slugger O’Toole political blog (THE TIMES, 12/01/10):
If you offered an account of the past five days as a piece of a fiction to a publisher he would throw it back in your face and tell you that it was too unbelievable for anyone to buy.
Actually the real crisis this week at Stormont had little to do with the salacious details of Peter and Iris Robinson’s private lives. It relates to a much more plausible, elemental power play of “who eats whom”.
Yesterday brought to a close, for now at least, … Seguir leyendo
By Lord Bew, an independent cross-bench peer and professor of Irish politics at Queen’s University, Belfast (THE TIMES, 11/01/10):
The crisis of Peter and Iris Robinson, falling hard upon the heels of the fall of the House of Paisley, may well mark the end of dynasty politics in Northern Ireland. But its significance is far greater than that. The First Minister, Peter Robinson was the British and Irish governments’ best hope to achieve delivery of the final critical stage in the peace process — the devolution of policing and justice powers to Northern Ireland.
Wounded as he now is, … Seguir leyendo
Por Mario Vargas Llosa © Derechos mundiales de prensa en todas las lenguas reservados a Ediciones EL PAÍS, SL, 2009 (EL PAÍS, 04/10/09):
El castillo de Galgorm, en Ballymena, en el condado de Antrim (Irlanda del Norte) fue construido en la primera mitad del siglo XVII por el doctor Alexander Colville, un doctor no en medicina sino en “divinidades”, es decir teología, a quien, como se hizo rico de la noche a la mañana, sus contemporáneos sospechaban de haber hecho pacto con el diablo y practicar las artes mágicas. Un retrato suyo orna todavía la entrada del castillo y el … Seguir leyendo
By Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Féin, member of the Legislative Assembly of Northern Ireland for West Belfast and abstentionist MP for West Belfast at Westminster (THE GUARDIAN, 15/07/09):
The single most important issue facing the people of Ireland and Britain is the achievement of Irish unity and the construction of a new relationship between Ireland and Britain based on equality.
Economic crises, however severe, will come and go. Governments will come and go, but for more centuries than any of us care to contemplate Britain’s involvement in Ireland has been the source of conflict; partition, discord and division; … Seguir leyendo
Por Irene Boada, periodista y filóloga (EL PERIÓDICO, 11/04/09):
Pocos días después de los asesinatos en el Ulster, los irlandeses hacían algo que saben hacer muy bien y que es muy sano: reírse de sí mismos. En la Opera House de Belfast se representaba The history of the troubles, accodin’ to my Da (La historia de los conflictos, según mi padre), de Martin Lynch, un autor local, en la que se ironiza sobre la parte más sórdida de los seres humanos al más puro estilo de Sean O’Casey o de tantos otros dramaturgos irlandeses. La obra, que … Seguir leyendo
By David Park, the author of The Truth Commissioner and Oranges From Spain (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 16/03/09):
In Northern Ireland the squalid and brutal murders of two unarmed, off-duty soldiers taking delivery of pizzas, followed by the execution of a police officer who was responding to a call for help, achieved what all acts of terrorism intend — the release into the body politic of the poisonous spores of fear.
In this case, the fear was all the more potent because it infected the psyche of all those who had lived through the Troubles, regenerating the memories of … Seguir leyendo
By Liam Clarke (THE TIMES, 15/03/09):
I wonder if Gerry Adams, the Sinn Finn leader, remembered his old adversary Margaret Thatcher as he stood in Government Buildings in Dublin last week and said that dissident republicans “shouldn’t have room to breathe”? He liked the image so much, he repeated it in a press statement. “It is crucial that there is no breathing space given to these unrepresentative groups and that there is no sense of ambiguity about our collective opposition to their actions.”
It was a remarkable echo of the Iron Lady’s call for the Provisional IRA to be denied … Seguir leyendo
By Kevin Toolis, the author of Rebel Hearts: Journeys Within the IRA’s Soul (THE TIMES, 11/03/09):
It is Easter Day – the most sacred day in the Irish Republican calendar.
In the drizzling rain last year the Provisional movement is assembling to march through the tawdry streets of West Belfast to celebrate the 1916 Easter Rising and Pádraig Pearse, the IRA’s bloodthirsty founder.
The flute bands strike up, the drummers roll and the procession slowly snakes its way forward. But something is wrong. Under the orders of Gerry Adams the marchers are not allowed to unfurl their banners – … Seguir leyendo