- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction to Revised Edition
- Introduction
-
Achieving Transformational Change
1 -
The Resolution of Armed Conflict: Internationalization and its Lessons, Particularly in Northern Ireland
1 -
Some Reflections on Successful Negotiation in South Africa
1 -
The Secrets of the Oslo Channels: Lessons from Norwegian Peace Facilitation in the Middle East, Central America and the Balkans
1 - The Awakening: Irish-America's Key Role in the Irish Peace Process
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‘Give Us Another Macbride Campaign’:
An Irish-American Contribution to Peaceful Change in Northern Ireland1 -
Towards Peace in Northern Ireland
1 -
Neither Orange March nor Irish Jig: Finding Compromise in Northern Ireland
1 - Mountain-climbing Irish-style: The Hidden Challenges of the Peace Process
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The Good Friday Agreement: A Vision for a New Order in Northern Ireland
1 -
Hillsborough to Belfast: Is It the Final Lap?
1 -
Defining Republicanism: Shifting Discourses of New Nationalism and Post-republicanism
1 - Conflict, Memory and Reconciliation
- Keeping Going: Beyond Good Friday
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Religion and Identity in Northern Ireland
1 -
Getting to Know the ‘Other’: Inter-church Groups and Peace-building in Northern Ireland
1 - Enduring Problems: The Belfast Agreement and a Disagreed Belfast
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Appendix 1 The Sunningdale Agreement (December 1973) -
Appendix 2 The Anglo-Irish (Hillsborough) Agreement (November 1985) -
Appendix 3 The Opsahl Commission (June 1993)1 -
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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The Awakening: Irish-America's Key Role in the Irish Peace Process
The Awakening: Irish-America's Key Role in the Irish Peace Process
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- (p.67) The Awakening: Irish-America's Key Role in the Irish Peace Process
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- The Long Road to Peace in Northern Ireland
- Author(s):
Niall O'dowd
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This chapter presents an insider's account of the Irish peace process. The author, as editor of the main Irish–American newspaper, The Irish Voice, was dismayed at attitudes in Ireland as well as Britain, which dismissed all Irish–Americans as too ‘green’ or too ‘republican’, and excluded those with real influence who were genuinely seeking to assist the peace process in Northern Ireland. He cites the cases of the Birmingham Six, the Guildford Four, and the MacBride Principles (seeking to establish fair employment practices in Northern Ireland) as issues where Ireland simply followed British advice and froze out Irish–America. Irish–Americans remained powerless under both Ronald Reagan and George Bush Senior because of the strength of the ‘special relationship’ with Britain. By 1992, with Clinton at the White House, the Irish–American lobby was in a position to act legitimately as the ‘third party’.
Keywords: Irish–Americans, Northern Ireland, peace process, Bill Clinton, third party, Ronald Reagan, George Bush Senior
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction to Revised Edition
- Introduction
-
Achieving Transformational Change
1 -
The Resolution of Armed Conflict: Internationalization and its Lessons, Particularly in Northern Ireland
1 -
Some Reflections on Successful Negotiation in South Africa
1 -
The Secrets of the Oslo Channels: Lessons from Norwegian Peace Facilitation in the Middle East, Central America and the Balkans
1 - The Awakening: Irish-America's Key Role in the Irish Peace Process
-
‘Give Us Another Macbride Campaign’:
An Irish-American Contribution to Peaceful Change in Northern Ireland1 -
Towards Peace in Northern Ireland
1 -
Neither Orange March nor Irish Jig: Finding Compromise in Northern Ireland
1 - Mountain-climbing Irish-style: The Hidden Challenges of the Peace Process
-
The Good Friday Agreement: A Vision for a New Order in Northern Ireland
1 -
Hillsborough to Belfast: Is It the Final Lap?
1 -
Defining Republicanism: Shifting Discourses of New Nationalism and Post-republicanism
1 - Conflict, Memory and Reconciliation
- Keeping Going: Beyond Good Friday
-
Religion and Identity in Northern Ireland
1 -
Getting to Know the ‘Other’: Inter-church Groups and Peace-building in Northern Ireland
1 - 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)1 -
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]