There has been considerable and protracted debate on whether a formal truth recovery process should be established in Northern Ireland. Some of the strongest opposition to the creation of such a body has been from unionist political elites and the security forces. Based on qualitative fieldwork, this article argues that the dynamics of denial and silence have been instrumental in shaping their concerns. It explores how questions of memory,identity and denial have created a ‘myth of blamelessness’ in unionist discourse that is at odds with the reasons for a truth process being established. It also examines how three interlocking manifestations of silence – ‘silence as passivity,’ ‘silence as loyalty’ and ‘silence as pragmatism’ – have furthe...
This paper is concerned with the politics of memory and their consequences – how memory in its tangi...
This article addresses avenues for reconciliation and the persistence of the Troubles in Northern I...
This dissertation argues that the political and spatial control over time and temporality is a deepl...
There has been considerable and protracted debate on whether a formal truth recovery process should ...
While formal truth recovery processes have been commonplace in many transitional societies, the ques...
The Belfast Agreement ended the bulk of paramilitary and state violence, underlined majority consent...
This article critically explores the idea that resolving ethnic conflicts requires some form of trut...
Examines the possibility of applying the truth commission model in Northern Ireland where the past p...
This book considers the problem of managing the unfinished business of a violent past in societies m...
The question of how to ‘deal’ with the past in post‐conflict Northern Ireland preoccupies public con...
Sixteen years after the Good Friday Agreement, Northern Ireland remains a deeply segregated society....
Much scholarly attention across several disciplines has been devoted to the interlocking series of i...
Since the early 2000s, Northern Ireland society has been considering whether it should confront its ...
In 1998, the violent Troubles in Northern Ireland came to an end with the signing of the Good Friday...
This paper is the final result of my Independent Study Project, a month long research period followi...
This paper is concerned with the politics of memory and their consequences – how memory in its tangi...
This article addresses avenues for reconciliation and the persistence of the Troubles in Northern I...
This dissertation argues that the political and spatial control over time and temporality is a deepl...
There has been considerable and protracted debate on whether a formal truth recovery process should ...
While formal truth recovery processes have been commonplace in many transitional societies, the ques...
The Belfast Agreement ended the bulk of paramilitary and state violence, underlined majority consent...
This article critically explores the idea that resolving ethnic conflicts requires some form of trut...
Examines the possibility of applying the truth commission model in Northern Ireland where the past p...
This book considers the problem of managing the unfinished business of a violent past in societies m...
The question of how to ‘deal’ with the past in post‐conflict Northern Ireland preoccupies public con...
Sixteen years after the Good Friday Agreement, Northern Ireland remains a deeply segregated society....
Much scholarly attention across several disciplines has been devoted to the interlocking series of i...
Since the early 2000s, Northern Ireland society has been considering whether it should confront its ...
In 1998, the violent Troubles in Northern Ireland came to an end with the signing of the Good Friday...
This paper is the final result of my Independent Study Project, a month long research period followi...
This paper is concerned with the politics of memory and their consequences – how memory in its tangi...
This article addresses avenues for reconciliation and the persistence of the Troubles in Northern I...
This dissertation argues that the political and spatial control over time and temporality is a deepl...