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Impossible Peace 2: The murders at Massereene
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Impossible Peace 2: The murders at Massereene

March 7th 2009: another murder scene painted onto the canvas of an imperfect, 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...
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Impossible Peace 2: Tea for two
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Impossible Peace 2: Tea for two

The old receipt takes me back twenty years to a Saturday morning - July 23rd 2005. I was in one of those meetings of words and silences; sitting with Richard McAuley a senior aide to then Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams...[Brian Rowan’s receipt dated 23/07/05]Brian Rowan’s receipt dated 23/07/05 The old receipt is showing its age. Lines and wrinkles through which I...
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Impossible Peace 2: On a wing and a prayer
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Impossible Peace 2: On a wing and a prayer

"The job is done. It can't be done twice." What were the doubts and narratives around IRA decommissioning?...September 2005: The IRA needed somebody who could handle the poisoned chalice of decommissioning; a leader of such standing to be able to carry the conscience and the orders of its ‘army council’ into this next critical phase of the process. They chose one of...
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Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation

...2: pitch and notation: Introduction - This free course explores pitch, considering how musical sounds are differentiated as notes and as systems of notes. It introduces the Western pitch system, then explores how pitch is organised in some other world traditions, including Aka singing from Central Africa, Sundanese gamelan music from Indonesia, and Arab classical music...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground

...2: the middleground, continues our examination of 'voice-leading' or 'Schenkerian' analysis, perhaps the most widely used and discussed method of analysing tonal music. In this course, this method is explained through the analysis of piano sonatas by Mozart. The course is the second in the AA314 series of three courses on this form of harmonic analysis, and concentrates...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Impossible Peace 2: The missing legacy voices
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Impossible Peace 2: The missing legacy voices

Brian Rowan reflects on the voices and stories of those no longer with us...Every time I read into my files, I am reminded of those no longer with us and I think about them in the different phases of the conflict and in the peace of this place. Some of them shouldered the heavy weights of change, while others made things difficult and, at times, impossible. We often...
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Impossible Peace 2: An everyday kind of miracle
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Impossible Peace 2: An everyday kind of miracle

The afterword to the project archive by Declan Lawn - the screenwriter and director behind BBC's "Blue Lights"...[A photograph of Declan Lawn] I joined BBC Northern Ireland in 2002, and so became a reporter of the aftermath. Conflict journalists counted the bodies; I would spend my career counting the cost. In those early years after the agreement there were times when...
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Impossible Peace 2: Thrown to the political wolves
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Impossible Peace 2: Thrown to the political wolves

A seismic shift. A rapid sequence of events. What were the sentiments around the decision to demilitarise?...Saturday, July 30th 2005: Within 48 hours of that historic IRA statement I began to better understand the shape of this phase of the process; something that was more about the war than the politics of this place. The IRA words of Thursday would bring a British...
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