In 1998 the Good Friday agreement brought to an end the violence known as The Troubles in Northern Ireland. But while the killings and bombings largely stopped, there was a rise in another form of violence.
Category: Mental Health
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Health and Social Issues
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Siobhan Halliday looks at politically correct terms to do with race and reflects on her experiences with casual racism as a member of the Irish Catholic Community.
The walls of Belfast reflect and echo the history of the city.
Category: History
As some banks consider leaving London to adjust to a post-Brexit world, Emmanuel Yujuico suggests that there might not be a single replacement hub in the future
Category: Business Strategy & Studies
Is the idea of integrated education in Northern Ireland a vehicle for social cohesion, or for perpetuating community divisions?
Category: Sociology
Newly-minted Newry's city status may be - but it still relies on the same commerce and location that has kept it thriving across the centuries as a town.
Category: Sociology
How are Brexit and the Irish border connected? Dr Philp O'Sullivan reflects on the changing geographical relationship between the UK and Ireland.
Category: OpenLearn Ireland
The future of rural Ireland - nuances, scale and fighting back
Category: OpenLearn Ireland
In Southwest Donegal, we see both the local uniqueness and different interdependencies and interconnections with other places.
Category: OpenLearn Ireland
Father James McDyer discusses the dilemma of the Glencolmcille holiday village between development, language and culture and the threat of depopulation. Tourism is important for economic development but what impact does it have on local culture and the Irish language?
Category: OpenLearn Ireland
In 1983, the fight to retain a unique Irish speaking culture meant that jobs had to be created locally in manufacturing and tourism so that Irish speakers no longer had to emigrate, but industrialisation also threatened the survival of the Irish language.
Category: OpenLearn Ireland
The period of the 1950s to 1980s was the beginning of modernisation in community life and farming and the development of manufacturing industry in the West of Ireland.
Category: OpenLearn Ireland
The population of Western Ireland declined dramatically between 1891 and 1961. How do you think this affected Ireland as a whole?
Category: OpenLearn Ireland
How did the rural areas of Western Ireland change after the rundale system was replaced?
Category: OpenLearn Ireland
Culture and how language identifies that culture are key to understanding what makes a region unique.
Category: OpenLearn Ireland
What is synthesis? Discover how this way of thinking helps us to understand more about the way in which places retain their uniqueness within wider systems of interdependence.
Category: OpenLearn Ireland
Introducing a collection of articles asking 'How can unique and distinctive regions, like the West of Ireland, retain the qualities that make them unique while continuing to modernise and interact with the wider world?'
Category: OpenLearn Ireland