The Northern Ireland Culture Wars
Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:03:00 BST
The Political Studies Association Specialist Group on Britishness, based at the University of Huddersfield, will hold a one day symposium entitled the ‘Northern Ireland Culture Wars’ at the University of Ulster, Belfast on 22 November 2013. The event, in collaboration with the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences at University of Ulster, is funded by the Political Studies Association. It will feature contributions from both academics and a range of civil society organisations including the Northern Ireland Equality Commission, Community Relations Council and Northern Ireland Youth Forum. For more information, please contact Shaun McDaid: S.McDaid@hud.ac.uk. On the subject of Northern Irish politics, ABIS members will be represented at the forthcoming Political Studies Association of Ireland annual conference at Trinity College Dublin, 18-20 October. Jim McAuley will present a paper entitled ‘Contemporary Loyalist narratives, collective memory and shared future’, while Shaun McDaid will speak on ‘The party politics of devolution and the failure of power-sharing in Northern Ireland during the 1970s.’
