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Bloody Sunday: Error or Design? (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

Bloody Sunday: Error or Design? (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

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When British Paratroopers shot dead 13 people at a civil rights march in Derry on January 30, 1972 it dealt a hammer blow to British government claims of neutrality and moral authority in dealing with the escalating violence in Northern Ireland. Existing historical accounts of Bloody Sunday treat the killings as the outcome of a more-or-less unified military anxiety at increasing disorder in Derry, combined with unexpected events on the day, presenting the killings as the outcome of essentially responsive actions by the British military. In so doing they lend support to the 'cock-up' theory that represents the killings as the outcome of a series of errors of interpretation and communication. This article provides an alternative interpretation of the political and military decision-making process, challenging key elements in the analysis in the existing literature. By contrast with existing accounts, it argues that the Bloody Sunday operation was a calculated plan devised a...

http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2885

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Commentary on William Hazleton's: Devolution and the diffusion of power: the internal and transnational dimensions of the Belfast Agreement. (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

Commentary on William Hazleton's: Devolution and the diffusion of power: the internal and transnational dimensions of the Belfast Agreement. (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

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Not peer reviewed

http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2886

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Conflict, territory and new technologies: Online interaction at a Belfast interface (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

Conflict, territory and new technologies: Online interaction at a Belfast interface (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

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This article examines the relationship between new information and communication technologies and territorial boundaries through an analysis of online interaction oriented around a sectarian interface in north Belfast. It is widely argued that new information and communication technologies are contributing to fundamental changes in the nature of territory and boundaries, with many arguing that they contribute to a deterritorialisation of social interaction. This article argues that new technologies neither transcend nor obliterate territorial boundaries but in certain senses reinforce and extend the role of physical boundaries as orienting locations for hostile interaction. Focusing on the interlinked territorial strategies of penetration and surveillance it argues that online interaction facilitates the extension and elaboration of territorial strategies oriented around physical lines of confrontation and the associated development of new material practices oriented around the phys...

http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2496

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Nation and Neighbourhood: Nationalist Mobilisation and Local Solidarities in the North of Ireland (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

Nation and Neighbourhood: Nationalist Mobilisation and Local Solidarities in the North of Ireland (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

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Not peer reviewed

http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2883

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Northern Ireland. In The Encyclopedia of Political Science (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

Northern Ireland. In The Encyclopedia of Political Science (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2890

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Reframing Online: Ulster Loyalists Imagine an American Audience (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

Reframing Online: Ulster Loyalists Imagine an American Audience (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

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This article examines one initiative aimed at taking advantage of new technologies to build new transnational connections between a political movement in the ¿homeland¿ and a diaspora population in the United States. It analyzes an initiative by Ulster loyalists in Northern Ireland to mobilize Americans of Ulster Protestant descent in support of their cause, while simultaneously attempting to undermine the American support base of their Irish nationalist opponents. By contrast with Irish nationalists, Ulster loyalists have never had significant support networks in the United States. This attempt to mobilize a distant diaspora has met with little success. This article argues that loyalist understandings of their imagined audience in the United States are built on a misleading caricature of Irish-American support networks for Irish republicans. These misunderstandings direct loyalists towards a strategy that places undue weight on the role of homeland propaganda in converting shared a...

http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2495

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Territoriality and Order in the North of Ireland (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

Territoriality and Order in the North of Ireland (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

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This article draws on the recent academic literature on territoriality and power to analyse territorial strategies for the maintenance of public order in the north of Ireland. It argues that these strategies were shaped decisively by the distinctive relationship between the informal internal ethnonational boundaries that were a central focus of Frank Wright's work and the external boundary of the Northern Ireland state. As a consequence, the 'internal' issue of policing was immediately and inextricably bound up with the outer boundary of the state, even at the level of everyday policing practices. It traces the way in which the state in Northern Ireland adopted particular territorial strategies to secure the external border and adapt to internal territorial unevenness from the outset. It argues that order was necessarily maintained through a limited recognition of the distinctive ethnonational character of particular areas within the state, and by distinctive territor...

http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2494

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The British Army in Northern Ireland. Encyclopedia of Ireland (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

The British Army in Northern Ireland. Encyclopedia of Ireland (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2884

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The longest negotiation: British policy, IRA strategy and the making of the Northern Ireland peace settlement (2017)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

The longest negotiation: British policy, IRA strategy and the making of the Northern Ireland peace settlement (2017)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

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This article offers a new analysis of the Northern Ireland peace settlement through an examination of the pivotal relationship between two key actors: the British state and the Provisional Republican movement that included Sinn Féin and the IRA. It traces the negotiating relationship between these key parties and argues that the ending of violent conflict in the 1990s can best be understood as the outcome of a long bargaining process between these two actors that was conducted both tacitly and explicitly over a span of more than two decades. It concludes that the development of a cooperative relationship between the British state and the Provisional leadership and the active coordination of British policy and republican strategy were the crucial elements in securing an end to violence in the 1990s.

http://hdl.handle.net/10379/6839

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The Politics of Housing; Social Change and Collective Action in Derry in the 1960s (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

The Politics of Housing; Social Change and Collective Action in Derry in the 1960s (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

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Not peer reviewed

http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2887

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The role of an intermediary in back-channel negotiation: Evidence from the Brendan Duddy Papers (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

The role of an intermediary in back-channel negotiation: Evidence from the Brendan Duddy Papers (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

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This article draws on the newly available private papers of Brendan Duddy, the key intermediary in contacts between the British government and the IRA between the early 1970s and the early 1990s when the IRA moved towards a permanent ceasefire and a negotiated settlement of the conflict. It draws too on extensive interviews with Duddy and other key participants in these contacts, and on newly available documents from the UK National Archives to identify some of the key dimensions to the role of intermediary in back-channel communication. It argues that these sources help us to better understand the complexity and ambiguity of the role of intermediary in sensitive covert negotiations, as well as shedding light on the extent to which an intermediary shapes communication between two parties rather than simply acting as a channel between them.

http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2491

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The Role of Government (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

The Role of Government (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

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Not peer reviewed

http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2889

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Together in the middle: Back-Channel Negotiation in the Irish Peace Process (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

Together in the middle: Back-Channel Negotiation in the Irish Peace Process (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

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This article examines the development of cooperative relationships in back-channel communication and their impact on intraparty negotiation. It draws on extensive newly available evidence on back-channel communication in the Irish peace process to expand the range of detailed case studies on a topic which is shrouded in secrecy and resistant to academic inquiry. The article analyses the operation of a secret back channel that linked the Irish Republican Army to the British government over a period of 20 years, drawing on unique material from the private papers of the intermediary, Brendan Duddy, and a range of other primary sources. The article finds that interaction through this back channel increased predictability and laid a foundation of extremely limited trust by providing information and increasing mutual understanding. Strong cooperative relationships developed at the intersection between the two sides, based to a great extent on strong interpersonal relationships and continu...

http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2492

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