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  CAIN: Issues: Sectarianism: Brewer, John D. 'Northern Ireland: 1921-1998'
Northern Ireland was not the invention of a cartographer who quickly scrambled together an inchoate border in a situation of rapid and violent decolonisation; it had roots, it had cultural and political coherence, and an economic base (cf.
Northern Ireland defined itself by its Protestantism against Catholicism and by its Britishness against Irishness; Protestantism and Britishness were its core values and they had been established as symbols of Ulster centuries before.
Northern Ireland's first prime minister is reputed to have said, after a meeting in London to discuss the terms of partition, that a verse in Scripture shows Ulster 'to be born to trouble as the sparks fly upward' (see Bardon, 1992: 495).
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 BBC Will and Testament | William Crawley's broadcasting diary
The GAA's Antrim County Board chairman, John McSparran, has confirmed that the event will go ahead as planned, despite a recent ruling by the GAA's Central Council that the rally is inconsistent with the organisation's Rule 7a (which prohibits the use of GAA facilities for "party-political" purposes).
One of the most controversial religious figures of the Northern Ireland Troubles, Fr Faul was Catholic chaplain in the Maze Prison during the hunger strikes of 1980 and 1981, and his interventions were significant in bringing those protests to an end.
The clergy of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland are permitted to officiate at religious blessing ceremonies for gay and lesbian couples, according to a church spokesperson.
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 Holy Cross school, Belfast: two years on | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
Ronnie Flanagan, the former chief constable of what was then the RUC, and the Northern Ireland office are being sued by the mother of a Holy Cross pupil, who was forced to flee her home during the dispute after receiving loyalist death threats.
The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (HRC), set up under the Good Friday Agreement, decided in November 2001 to support the legal action brought by the mother fleeing from death threats.
When Northern Ireland's First Minister David Trimble finally decided to visit the school, it was the beginning of the end.
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 The Irish Association - Edna Longley 12 November 1999
Shots are fired in the culture-war whenever northern nationalists say that Protestants/unionists "have no culture"; or whenever unionists disparage "Irish" culture and celebrate an abstract "British" cultural realm unmarked by local differences.
Ireland is doomed to repeat history because after 1921-22, and because of events since 1912, "energetic debate" ceased.
John Dunlop has written of the "depression" associated with Protestant decline.
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 Dunlop Golf Club
Edward Dunlop 1: '''Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop ''' (July 12, 1907 - July 2, 1993) 2: Weary Dunlop was a surgeon who was renowned for his braver 4: [1942, he was promoted to temporary Lt Colonel.
Dunlop became a Japanese prisoner of war when he was cap 8: umber of other Commonwealth Medical Officers, Dunlop 's dedication and heriosm became a legend among pr 11: * [http: www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/dunlop /index.htm Australian War Memorial Site]
John Thomas Dunlop 1: '''John Thomas Dunlop ''' (born 1914) was a United States of Ameri 6: Category:1914 birthsDunlop, John Thomas 7: Category:U.S. Secretaries of LaborDunlop, John Thomas
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 Russia, Chechnya, the West - JRL Research & Analytical Supplement Symposium - January 2005
Solarz, Glen E. Howard, Morton Abramowitz, Nicholas Daniloff, John Dunlop, Paul Goble, Paul P. Henze, Richard Pipes, Peter Reddaway, Marshall I. Goldman, and another dozen or two individuals who have devoted their careers to various kinds of agencies and occupations connected with the USSR and the post-Soviet states, including the new Russia.
After all, progress towards a political settlement in Northern Ireland has been painfully slow, as both sides need to show their own supporters that they are not to suffer the humiliation of surrender.
The case of Northern Ireland demonstrates that, at least under certain circumstances, secessionist terrorists can be persuaded to renounce terrorism and transform themselves into peaceful politicians without giving in to their basic demand for secession.
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 Biographies, Pension Papers, and Family Records   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
of John Ball Osborne] OSBORNE, Edwin Sylvanus, representative, was born in Bethany, Wayne county, Pa., Aug. 7, 1839; son of Sylvanus and Lucy (Messinger) Osborne; grandson of Cooper and Hannah (Oakley) Osborne.
He was the son of a lieutenant-colonel in the army, and, entering the navy as a first-class volunteer in 1837, was attached for several years to the stations of the Indian ocean.
He became a prominent Republican politician; was a common council man, 1884-85; a member of the board of police commissioners, 1885-93, and secretary of the Republican national committee of 1896.
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 CHRONOLOGY 1993
The northern secretary, Sir Patrick Mayhew, said in a BBC interview that articles 2 and 3 of the republic's constitution were "unhelpful" and would be central to any future talks.
The northern secretary, Sir Patrick Mayhew, said there would be no new inquiry into the deaths of 13 civilians shot dead by the army on Bloody Sunday in 1972, despite a letter from the prime minister, John Major, acknowledging their innocence.
The British Labour party Northern Ireland spokesperson, Kevin McNamara, called for the cases of three men jailed for life for involvement in the murders of two British army corporals in 1988 in west Belfast to be referred back to the Court of Appeal.
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 Standby Information
Contrary to popular opinion, Dunlop did not invent the pneumatic tyre, it was actually invented by Robert William Thomson.
After religious disputes with John Knox and political intrigue involving her nobles, she was imprisoned and forced to abdicate in 1567 in favour of her son James VI.
The tyre was re-invented by John Dunlop in 1888.
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 Dunlop Tennis Rackets
1) " Dunlop" -- In the context of Dunlop Tennis Rackets
2) " Tennis" -- In the context of Dunlop Tennis Rackets
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 Slugger O'Toole: McAleese defends 'hate' comment...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The difference between the Unionist community and the mimority population of Northern Ireland is of course that a majority of the minority are prepared to cast their ballot for people who murder on the basis of religion.
There are "people" in Northen Ireland that have transmitted to their children an irrational hatred, for example, of Catholics, in the same way that people give to their children an outrageous and irrational hatred of those who are of different colour and all of those things.
But northern Protestants are not alone in their behaviour, similar sentiments exist in settler societies where the natives outnumbered the settlers.
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 AEI - Events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
And John Dunlop, whose writings we all know, author of, "The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire," and many other works including about Chechnya.
DUNLOP: --a fl hole in which a large part of the funds earmarked for reconstruction and services are, in fact, embezzled at both a federal and a local level.
But as Professor Dunlop said, the origins of these attacks is not absolutely clear, nor is it clear who ultimately is responsible for organizing and orchestrating them.
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 http://geocities.com/Heartland/Flats/3950/ScotlandinHistory.html
Lord John Boyd-Orr (1880 - 1971) As Director of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Boyd-Orr was the architect of food policies aimed at helping starving nations, for which he was awarded a Nobel Peace prize in 1947.
John Knox (1505 - 1572) Churchman and father of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland, whereby the Roman Catholic church was replaced by a disestablished, democratic, presbyterian Church of Scotland, founded on Calvanist principles.
John Muir (1834 - 1914) Naturalist and Conservationist, born in Dunbar.
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 Slugger O'Toole: Behind Orange Lines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
We need a new type of "British" politician (I don't like the term Unionist given its associations) unconnected to the OO who can articulate an alternative and positive 21st century vision of what it means to be a resident of NI who wishes to maintain the British link.
There is still a strong strand of liberal theology among the Presbyterian church for example John Dunlop who wrote 'A precarious belonging' One of the most thoughtful analysis of protestants and identity in Ireland.
I would also like to mention John Ross an ex moderator, (for those who don't know the Presbyterian church the elected leader of the church), who stood up against bigotry in his Holywood and in the church.
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 Millen, John Dunlop (1877 - 1941) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
John Dunlop Millen (1877 - 1941), by Robinson Brothers, 1920s, courtesy of National Library of Australia.
MILLEN, JOHN DUNLOP (1877-1941), mining engineer and politician, was born on 3 May 1877 at Londonderry, Ireland, son of John Millen, draper, and his wife Kate, née Dickson.
Print Publication Details: Scott Bennett, 'Millen, John Dunlop (1877 - 1941)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 10, Melbourne University Press, 1986, pp 503-504.
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 Timeline 1771-1779
John Parker mustered 78 militiamen on the town green of Lexington to send a warning to the 700 British soldiers marching to Concord to seize weapons and gunpowder.
John Hancock said, "There, I guess King George will be able to read that." referring to his signature on the Declaration of Independence.
Henry Clay of Kentucky was a master politician in the era preceding the Civil War.
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 Chechnya: News | Opinion | Ranting: February 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
He did so out of conviction that this futile war is destroying the Chechen nation and is bringing the northern Caucasus region to the brink of chaos
Maskhadov has proven that he has the two necessary preconditions to be a credible negotiating partner: He is committed to ending the war through negotiations and he has manifested effective control over the Chechen armed resistance.
Politicians are aware of the Chechnya’s horror and devastation but kneel in front of brutalized Putin.
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 Today in History July 5
The following day, Congress passed a resolution written by Thomas Jefferson and John Dickinson, a "Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of Taking Up Arms," which rejected independence but asserted that Americans were ready to die rather than be enslaved.
He discovered a vast lode of diamonds at Kimberley and founded the De Beers Mining Co. He ran for Cape parliament in 1881 and was prime minister of the Cape Colony from 1890-1896.
1998 Jul 5, In Northern Ireland British forces blocked the Protestant march by the Orangemen outside the main Catholic neighborhood of Portadown.
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 Chechnya: News | Opinion | Ranting: January 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Well, from the situation on the ground and the fact that Russia still employs its most advanced weapons systems in Chechnya short of nukes, I can only think that more than just a handful of "criminals" are operating in Chechnya.
MOSNEWS.COM reports that Lech Magomadov, 69, founder of the Chechen party branch and a pro-Kremlin Chechen politician, died in Mecca on Tuesday.
The real reason behind the war is and has always been Chechen oil, the oil pipeline passing through it and the oil pipeline Russians want to build in the near future.
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 History in English - 4th February + 10 Days
Birthday: 5/2/1840: John Dunlop, Scottish inventor of pneumatic bicycle tyre
Event: 4/2/1989: John Cassavetes, the American actor and film director, died aged 59
Event: 9/2/1971: The first British soldier was killed in Northern Ireland
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