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...Tomás Ó Cathasaigh is a world figure in his field,” says Colloquium presenter Marion Deane of the University of Ulster, in reference to Harvard’s Shattuck professor of Irish studies. “The fact that he is here stimulated me to come here...
Deane says that Celtic studies are “not so popular” at the University of Ulster where she teaches, since it is difficult to attract loyalty the way other single-discipline departments...
...Finucane boys were still teenagers in 1969, when Ulster's plunge into the maelstrom turned their lives upside down. Three of the brothers joined the outlawed Irish Republican Army. Pat Finucane took a different path. He became a defense lawyer, fighting the authorities in the courtroom instead of the streets. Yet it was he, not his brothers, who was gunned down by masked men in 1989 as he sat down to dinner with his wife and three children in Belfast. And his death may hold an even greater irony: in his grave, Pat Finucane is doing far greater damage...
Mari Fitzduff, director of International Conflicts Research Center and a professor of conflict studies at the University of Ulster, said she had a different perspective because of her experience living in “the killing fields of North Ireland...
...Ulster Talks Stall NORTHERN IRELAND Elections to the devolved government were postponed until May 29 after the British and Irish Prime Ministers failed to get Unionists and Sinn Fein to agree on a system for policing breaches of the 1998 Good Friday accord. London suspended the power-sharing administration last October due to allegations of I.R.A. spying inside the British government. Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern postponed the elections, originally scheduled for May 1, to allow the parties more time to reach agreement. Going It Alone poland Prime Minister Leszek Miller defied calls by the opposition Civic Forum to hold...