It's interesting what comes up when researching. I noticed this picture in the Evening Herald in May 1974 of the Carruth triplets from Walkinstown receiving their First Holy Communion. Michael, to the right, went on to win a boxing gold at the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games.

For anyone interested in interrogating the nature of how we understand the Troubles from various disciplinary perspectives (and is in Belfast 23 May) come to the launch of ‘Routledge Handbook of NI Conflict and Peace’. No expectation to purchase the book! eventbrite.co.uk/e/disciplinary…

Edward Burke appreciate your contribution today but a few questions: when will your panel address ethics, data management and risks as in standard research projects? Silence has created a sense that it was ignored and now scrambling to address.

It occurs to me a short reflection on the current conversation about official/ public history and Northern Ireland might be helpful. These are just my thoughts and others are welcome to contribute or disagree. I write with no personal animus.

It is actually getting tiring witnessing the evolving repackaging and representing of the irredeemable - the legacy process’s official history panel - whose link to the imposed legacy process is clear to everyone as somehow apolitical, objective history.

Karl O’Hanlon: It’s exhausting to have intergenerational trauma pawed over but, as with so much else involving the Tory government, there’s always fresh insult, spite and disproportionate cruelty. What’s novel is that fellow academics have been drawn in
irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…

“No line can be drawn under the Troubles for grieving families”
considered @irishtimes piece by Prof Diarmaid Ferriter with full consideration for families also stressed by Prof ⁦Marie Coleman⁩ QUB, Prof ⁦Prof Laura McAtackney⁩ UCC, Dr ⁦Cormac Moore⁩
irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…

New article, a personal reflection on the recently launched UCC Ireland Civil War fatality project Andy Bielenberg Dr Helene O'Keeffe TheIrishHistoryShow theirishstory.com/2024/05/09/the…

Great thread on how the Legacy Act and the official British government history project are intrinsically linked at their inceptions, including the views of one of the chair’s of the advisory panel, Lord Bew, who supported the history project being a part of the Legacy Act.

'And if they don't believe us now will they ever believe us..' May-17-74 Anatomy of a Massacre out Friday Lighthouse cinema May 16th IFI Derry May 17th & Monaghan May 24th Angie B 🏴‍☠️🇵🇸🇮🇪 JIM FITZPATRICK JusticeFTForgotten Mick Caul Irvine Welsh Chay Bowes #dubmon50
irishtimes.com/culture/film/2…

Should be interesting. Article on the formation of the border here theirishstory.com/2019/09/12/the…

Organised by the Ballsbridge, Donnybrook and Sandymount Historical Society, join me for this talk on the Boundary Commission. A teaser for my book on the same subject which is being published by Merrion Press in early 2025.

“No, there can’t be an official history. The phrase is one of those oxymorons comedians conjure up, a contradiction in terms: you know, like ‘civil service’, ‘military intelligence’, ‘British justice’.”
~Brian Feeney, The Irish News

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'I think I'd say get stuffed,'

Professor Diarmaid Ferriter - on what he'd say if the NIO called and ask him to help write an official history of The Troubles.

Mark Carruthers

🚨A very important analysis of why a UK government history of Northern Ireland should be rejected.
To offer hand picked historians access to UK gov files while denying the information to victim families is abhorrent.
A partial history is not an equivalent to truth #Legacy