Archivo etiqueta «Irlanda»
Por Irene Boada, filóloga y periodista (EL PERIÓDICO, 30/09/09):
Mary Robinson, icono internacional en la defensa de los derechos humanos, recientemente condecorada por Obama con la Medalla de la Libertad, marcó un antes y un después en su país. Esta profesora de Derecho, miembro del Partido Laborista, de origen católico y casada con un protestante, fue la primera mujer en acceder a la presidencia de Irlanda en 1990. La independencia de Eire, el nombre de Irlanda en gaélico, en 1922, fue un largo sueño para muchos. Ya en el siglo XVIII, el protestante Wolfe Tone, uno de los padres … Seguir leyendo
By Declan Ganley, a businessman and the founder and leader of Libertas (THE GUARDIAN, 25/09/09):
Being Irish, it’s hard to imagine how it must appear to an outsider looking at our second referendum on the Lisbon treaty. At least somebody out there reading this must be jealous – we get to vote twice and you don’t get to vote at all. Perhaps the most interesting thing about our re-vote is the way in which it was regarded as a certainty after the original referendum. The votes were literally not counted before some Irish media personalities, and EU … 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 Fernando Savater, catedrático de Filosofía de la Universidad Complutense (EL PAÍS, 120/06/09):
A Urban Sea le pasó lo que a muchas hembras de una especie que nos resulta más familiar: su físico vulgar y poco atractivo hizo que los superficiales no reconociesen su enorme valía. Tampoco tuvo suerte en sus salidas a la pista, en Francia, Inglaterra, Hong Kong, Japón o Canadá: siempre algo se torcía en la carrera, la montaban mal o le cortaban el paso en el momento decisivo, cosas así. Sólo su preparador Jean Lesbordes mantuvo invariable su fe en ella, hasta que se vio … Seguir leyendo
Por Irene Boada, periodista y filóloga (EL PERIÓDICO, 03/06/09):
Irlanda logró la independencia en 1922, pero ello no comportó demasiadas mejoras para el país. Habiendo quedado al margen de la industrialización, era una sociedad totalmente agrícola y con una población en constante huida de la pobreza hacia Inglaterra, paradójicamente la antigua colonizadora, o Norteamérica. El historiador Joe Lee ha llegado a afirmar que después de la independencia la situación económica empeoró más si cabe. No existía una burguesía que invirtiera en industria y había poco sentido de innovación cultural o social. En cambio, lo que se daba era un … Seguir leyendo
By Libby Purbes (THE TIMES, 25/05/09):
Understandably distracted by our own little crisis of trust, we have perhaps not taken in the apocalyptic import of a bigger one across the Irish Sea.
Perhaps it is a vague sense that we knew it all; perhaps reluctance to engage with the horrid details of the Ryan report into child abuse by Irish clerics. Perhaps some think it is old history, a 1950s horror. Maybe there is even a decorous sense that — as a new Archbishop of Westminster is enthroned here — it is tasteless to dwell on the wickedness deliberately concealed … Seguir leyendo
By John Banville, the author, most recently, of the novel The Sea (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 23/05/09):
Everyone knew. When the Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse issued its report this week, after nine years of investigation, the Irish collectively threw up their hands in horror, asking that question we have heard so often, from so many parts of the world, throughout the past century: How could it happen?
Surely the systematic cruelty visited upon hundreds of thousands of children incarcerated in state institutions in this country from 1914 to 2000, the period covered by the inquiry, but particularly … Seguir leyendo
By Paul Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics and a columnist for the New York Times, where this article first appeared (THE GUARDIAN, 21/04/09):
‘What,” asked my interlocutor, “is the worst-case outlook for the world economy?” It wasn’t until the next day that I came up with the right answer: America could turn Irish.
What’s so bad about that? Well, the Irish government now predicts that this year GDP will fall more than 10% from its peak, crossing the line that is sometimes used to distinguish between a recession and a depression. But there’s … Seguir leyendo
By John Banville, the author of the novels Eclipse, The Untouchable, The Sea and The Book of Evidence (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 16/10/08):
In the ravening years of the Celtic Tiger we had a dinner-party competition to define the figure most representative of the suddenly prosperous Ireland we so bafflingly found ourselves in. Someone came up with “a non-tax-paying businessman’s trophy wife.” This seemed right, and as time went on we added more and more details; at last count we had arrived at “a non-tax-paying businessman’s trophy wife driving her 14-year-old daughter to her drug rehabilitation session … Seguir leyendo
By Fintan O’Toole, assistant editor of the Irish Times (THE GUARDIAN, 14/06/08):
A voter in County Clare, not content with putting an X beside the no option on the simple ballot paper in the Irish referendum on the Lisbon treaty, included a long letter of protest. Its message to the Irish government, which had campaigned desperately for a yes vote, was: “You forgot us in Shannon.” The anonymous voter was using the opportunity of a vote on the structural reform of the European Union to protest against the withdrawal by the newly privatised state airline Aer Lingus of its … Seguir leyendo
By Seumas Milne (THE GUARDIAN, 12/06/08):
Fear is stalking Europe’s chancelleries and boardrooms. There is bewilderment in Brussels and dismay in Dublin. Against all protocol and best practice, the people of Ireland have been given a free vote today on whether to accept a further centralisation of power and entrenchment of corporate privilege in the European Union. There are few things that make the blood of EU officials run as cold as the prospect of a referendum. But not only do the Republic of Ireland’s three million voters have a chance to do what has been denied to the rest … Seguir leyendo
Por Hugo Brady, analista, Centre for European Reform (REAL INSTITUTO ELCANO, 11/06/08):
Tema: los ciudadanos irlandeses acudirán a las urnas el próximo 12 de junio para ratificar o rechazar el Tratado de Lisboa, en el único referéndum al respecto convocado por un Estado de la UE.
Resumen: Partidarios y detractores del Tratado de Lisboa de toda Europa seguirán con preocupación cómo los ciudadanos irlandeses acuden a las urnas el próximo 12 de junio para ratificar o rechazar el Tratado de Lisboa, en el único referéndum convocado por un Estado de la Unión a este efecto. Si gana el “sí”, … Seguir leyendo
By Fintan O’Toole, an author, columnist and assistant editor of The Irish Times (THE TIMES, 11/06/08):
The quickest way to understand the uncertainty that holds sway as Ireland prepares for tomorrow’s referendum on the EU Lisbon treaty is to think of the “what have the Romans ever done for us?” scene from Monty Python’s Life of Brian. On the one hand, there are the equivalents of the People’s Front of Judea and the Judean People’s Front – a fissiparous array of small groups ranging from right-wing Catholics to Trotskyites – all anxious to strike a blow against the big … Seguir leyendo
Por Rafael Leonisio (EL CORREO DIGITAL, 11/11/07):
Fue con la firma del Pacto de Lizarra a finales de los años 90 cuando la cuestión irlandesa se puso de moda en Euskadi. En aquella época el nacionalismo vasco se miraba en el espejo del proceso de paz norirlandés hasta el punto de pretender importar muchas de sus fórmulas. Una de ellas era el derecho de autodeterminación, el cual, reconocido por el Gobierno británico en 1998 con la firma del Acuerdo de Stormont o de Viernes Santo, habría contribuido de manera definitiva a alcanzar la paz. Desde entonces el nacionalismo vasco ha … Seguir leyendo
By Paul Muldoon, the author, most recently, of “Horse Latitudes” (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 25/05/07):
TOMORROW is the anniversary of the Battle of Tara Hill, fought on May 26, 1798, between 4,000 United Irishmen and 700 British yeomanry. The British carried the day. More than 200 years later, the hill of Tara, a little over 30 miles north of Dublin, is the scene of yet another battle, between the forces of modern Ireland, represented by the advocates of the M3 motorway, and those of us who believe that the routing of a busy road slap bang through the Tara-Skryne … Seguir leyendo