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Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce

...Troubles were part of everyday life for her, as a child and a teenager. She emigrated to Britain in 1988 and has since lived mainly in London and the north of England. Bryce describes emigration as a key experience in her adult life: it informs an ‘outsiderness’ in her poetry. Bryce often writes as if she were ‘at one remove’ from the mainstream. You might say...
Stay connected: supporting people with learning disabilities to use technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stay connected: supporting people with learning disabilities to use technology

...trouble-shoot. So maybe close down Zoom, log out and log back in. Acknowledgements and resources Acknowledgements Thank you to everyone who participated in the interviews: Andrea, Andrew, Carinder, Cathy, Chewy, Dan, Jean, Jo, Josh, Kathryn, Kevin, Lorrain, Marie, Mark, Neil, Robert, Tim, Tracey and Vicky. Also, thank you to the following groups: Ace Anglia EMH Group See...
Being heard
Education & Development

Being heard

...Troubles, when it seemed riots were a frequent occurrence. They happened in NI, but also it was the time of miners’ strikes and the Brixton uprising. People gathered to make their voices heard and violence ensued. I want to have a better understanding of the drivers for a riot. Human language and how the brain takes sound waves and gives us meaning from them. As a...
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Past and present: A 50-year celebration of British Sportswomen
Health, Sports & Psychology

Past and present: A 50-year celebration of British Sportswomen

...Troubles in Northern Ireland at its peak, Peters’ victory was poignant for reasons beyond simply sporting achievement with both sides of the community coming together to celebrate. Another of my heroes is Fatima Whitbread who became World champion in 1987. Although boasting a great career, Whitbread never managed an Olympic gold but won a silver (1988) and a bronze...
Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part Two
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part Two

...trouble, from small acts of kindness like offering advice on directions when someone is lost to attempts to rescue other unknown people when their lives are imperilled (with the classic example of given here of the people who in flimsy lifeboats in coastal towns across the UK would risk life and limb in treacherous waters to rescue survivors of shipwrecks). There are also...
Impossible Peace 2: The murders at Massereene
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: The murders at Massereene

...troubled, tortuous peace...March 2009: It was one of those writing moments when I thought carefully about every word; about whether I would be understood or misunderstood. The Belfast Telegraph used my photograph alongside a short blurb: How - after Saturday - do you begin to explain to people that the dissidents are not an IRA? That Saturday was March 7th 2009; when...
Reflections on the Northern Ireland Economy 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement
Society, Politics & Law

Reflections on the Northern Ireland Economy 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement

...Troubles have worsened the trajectory what can be called a hybrid economy. That is, some of the path dependent weaknesses of the economy (productivity difficulties, skills and training deficiencies) have continued in spite of benefits of greater peace over the last 25 years. The Troubles are estimated to have reduced Northern Ireland’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by up...
What is a confidence and supply government?
Society, Politics & Law

What is a confidence and supply government?

...trouble with this type of agreement, which generally involves several parties, is that it is inherently unstable. Trust between effective inter-party go-betweens would have to be quickly established. Meanwhile, the power of the Labour backbenchers to cause trouble should not be overlooked. A more formal confidence-and-supply agreement may therefore be needed in 2015....