The Assembly of Northern Ireland Hope and Constraint

On the occasion of a major speech in Belfast in the summer of 2013, American president Barack Obama talked about the exemplarity of Northern Ireland for the world. He found it profoundly edifying and promising that this troubled theatre of one of the most intractable conflicts of the twentieth centu...

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Published inParliaments of Autonomous Nations Vol. 1; pp. 183 - 202
Main Authors Lecours, André, Laforest, Guy
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Canada MQUP 2016
McGill-Queen's University Press
Subjects
Anthropology
Behavioral sciences
Committees
Communities
Ethnography
Ethnology
European history
European studies
Government
Human societies
Irish culture
Irish famine
Irish history
Irish literature
Irish nationalism
Irish politics
Irish studies
Legislative bodies
Legislatures
Parliaments
Political organizations
Political parties
Political science
Review committees
Social groups
Sociology
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Summary:On the occasion of a major speech in Belfast in the summer of 2013, American president Barack Obama talked about the exemplarity of Northern Ireland for the world. He found it profoundly edifying and promising that this troubled theatre of one of the most intractable conflicts of the twentieth century (and of all kinds of political drama in previous eras) had also seen the emergence of a movement toward peace and intercommunity dialogue culminating in the Good Friday–Belfast Agreement of 1998 (leading to the British Northern Ireland Act of the same year) and the St Andrews Agreement of 2006
ISBN:9780773547391
0773547398
DOI:10.1515/9780773599383-011