- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction to Revised Edition
- Introduction
- Achieving Transformational Change<sup>1</sup>
- The Resolution of Armed Conflict: Internationalization and its Lessons, Particularly in Northern Ireland<sup>1</sup>
- Some Reflections on Successful Negotiation in South Africa<sup>1</sup>
- The Secrets of the Oslo Channels: Lessons from Norwegian Peace Facilitation in the Middle East, Central America and the Balkans<sup>1</sup>
- The Awakening: Irish-America's Key Role in the Irish Peace Process
- ‘Give Us Another Macbride Campaign’:<sup>1</sup> An Irish-American Contribution to Peaceful Change in Northern Ireland
- Towards Peace in Northern Ireland<sup>1</sup>
- Neither Orange March nor Irish Jig: Finding Compromise in Northern Ireland<sup>1</sup>
- Mountain-climbing Irish-style: The Hidden Challenges of the Peace Process
- The Good Friday Agreement: A Vision for a New Order in Northern Ireland<sup>1</sup>
- Hillsborough to Belfast: Is It the Final Lap?<sup>1</sup>
- Defining Republicanism: Shifting Discourses of New Nationalism and Post-republicanism<sup>1</sup>
- Conflict, Memory and Reconciliation
- Keeping Going: Beyond Good Friday
- Religion and Identity in Northern Ireland<sup>1</sup>
- Getting to Know the ‘Other’: Inter-church Groups and Peace-building in Northern Ireland<sup>1</sup>
- Enduring Problems: The Belfast Agreement and a Disagreed Belfast
- Appendix 1 The Sunningdale Agreement (December 1973)
- Appendix 2 The Anglo-Irish (Hillsborough) Agreement (November 1985)
- Appendix 3 The Opsahl Commission (June 1993)<sup>1</sup>
- Appendix 4 the Downing Street Joint Declaration (December 1993)
- Appendix 5 The Framework Document (1995)
- Appendix 6 The Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement (April 1998)
- Appendix 7 The Report of the Northern Ireland Victims Commission (Sir Kenneth Bloomfield, 1998)
- Appendix 8 The Patten Report (1999)
- Appendix 9 Review of the Parades Commission (Sir George Quigley, 2002)
- Index
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Religion and Identity in Northern Ireland1
Religion and Identity in Northern Ireland1
- Chapter:
- (p.175) Religion and Identity in Northern Ireland1
- Source:
- The Long Road to Peace in Northern Ireland
- Author(s):
Marianne Elliott
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
The Opsahl Commission was an independent enquiry into ways forward in Northern Ireland, which produced its report in June 1993. The Commission sought to involve the people of Northern Ireland in the debate about its future. The exercise highlighted a continuing gulf of understanding between Protestant and Catholic. There is still a sense that the other community is a different people and ignorance is preventing any overall sense of a shared culture. Northern Ireland is not a zone of conflicting polarities, as many believe. There are too many shades of grey, too many people who ‘pick and mix’ from a range of identities, for that. But there are certain fundamentals to the mainstream religions which their adherents rarely lose even when they cease to be practising members. This chapter analyzes these core differences.
Keywords: Opsahl Commission, Northern Ireland, mainstream religions, identities, Protestants, Catholics, shared culture
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction to Revised Edition
- Introduction
- Achieving Transformational Change<sup>1</sup>
- The Resolution of Armed Conflict: Internationalization and its Lessons, Particularly in Northern Ireland<sup>1</sup>
- Some Reflections on Successful Negotiation in South Africa<sup>1</sup>
- The Secrets of the Oslo Channels: Lessons from Norwegian Peace Facilitation in the Middle East, Central America and the Balkans<sup>1</sup>
- The Awakening: Irish-America's Key Role in the Irish Peace Process
- ‘Give Us Another Macbride Campaign’:<sup>1</sup> An Irish-American Contribution to Peaceful Change in Northern Ireland
- Towards Peace in Northern Ireland<sup>1</sup>
- Neither Orange March nor Irish Jig: Finding Compromise in Northern Ireland<sup>1</sup>
- Mountain-climbing Irish-style: The Hidden Challenges of the Peace Process
- The Good Friday Agreement: A Vision for a New Order in Northern Ireland<sup>1</sup>
- Hillsborough to Belfast: Is It the Final Lap?<sup>1</sup>
- Defining Republicanism: Shifting Discourses of New Nationalism and Post-republicanism<sup>1</sup>
- Conflict, Memory and Reconciliation
- Keeping Going: Beyond Good Friday
- Religion and Identity in Northern Ireland<sup>1</sup>
- Getting to Know the ‘Other’: Inter-church Groups and Peace-building in Northern Ireland<sup>1</sup>
- Enduring Problems: The Belfast Agreement and a Disagreed Belfast
- Appendix 1 The Sunningdale Agreement (December 1973)
- Appendix 2 The Anglo-Irish (Hillsborough) Agreement (November 1985)
- Appendix 3 The Opsahl Commission (June 1993)<sup>1</sup>
- Appendix 4 the Downing Street Joint Declaration (December 1993)
- Appendix 5 The Framework Document (1995)
- Appendix 6 The Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement (April 1998)
- Appendix 7 The Report of the Northern Ireland Victims Commission (Sir Kenneth Bloomfield, 1998)
- Appendix 8 The Patten Report (1999)
- Appendix 9 Review of the Parades Commission (Sir George Quigley, 2002)
- Index
- [UNTITLED]
