topic: Ireland

Refusing the Silence of the British State
April 3, 2017
On May 17, 1974, a series of car bombs exploded without warning on the streets of Dublin and nearby Monaghan, Ireland. The bombs wreaked...
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Ordering History: Belfast's New Orange Museum
June 25, 2015
“…museums, and the museumizing imagination, are both profoundly political.” (Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities ) The museum has...
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Judith Butler speaks about Vulnerability and Resistance
February 16, 2015
Building on the work of her previous books Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning and Violence (2004), and Frames of War: When is Life...
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Today Day in History: Royal Marine School Bombing
September 22, 2014
Twenty five years ago today in Kent, UK, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) detonated a 15-pound bomb within the Royal Marine...