Notes

Front Matter

1 www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/07/26/dear-prime-minister-please-tread-carefully-handling-irish-border

Up to Speed

1 Devlin, Anne, ‘Responsibility for the Dead’, in Irish Pages: The Belfast Agreement Twentieth Anniversary Issue.

2 Carmel McCafferty was being interviewed on Radio Ulster’s Talkback on 12 August 2019.

3 www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-48626564

DUP

1 cain.ulster.ac.uk/events/peace/talks.htm

2 www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/united-ireland-acceptable-to-eileen-paisley-if-there-is-freedom-of-religion-38149393.html

3 www.hotpress.com/music/in-this-issue-of-hot-pressfree-content-2927817

4 www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/sammy-wilson-dup-brexit-food-15750704

5 www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/sammy-wilson-goes-from-figure-of-fun-to-principal-player-28543278.html

6 www.nuzhound.com/articles/Sunday_Tribune/arts2007/mar4_Shinners_Sharon_unrepentant_Republican__SBreen.php

7 www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/iris-robinson-damned-by-report-guilty-of-serious-breach-of-assembly-code-30783463.html

What a Carve-up/Up the Hill

1 sluggerotoole.com/2019/06/12/micheal-martin-time-for-those-elected-to-serve-in-democratic-institutions-to-be-allowed-to-get-to-work

2 www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/dungannon-farmer-is-biggest-rhi-claimant-with-13-boilers-running-35538815.html

3 www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/eamonn-mallie-a-way-for-arlene-foster-to-redeem-herself-1.3000191

4 www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/parts-of-draft-agreement-between-dup-and-sinn-fein-leaked-36624722.html

5 sluggerotoole.com/2019/07/12/abortion-and-marriage-equality-amendments-should-ensure-a-key-aim-of-the-northern-ireland-bill-fails

Up the Ra

1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAfF7o2jgn4 (c. 6’05”)

2 mosaicscience.com/story/conflict-suicide-northern-ireland

3 www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-49357887

4 www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/lyra-mckee-murder-suspect-set-to-be-a-dad-teens-baby-conceived-same-week-of-fatal-shooting-38391721.html

5 theconversation.com/northern-ireland-how-some-of-the-agreement-generation-are-drawn-into-paramilitary-groups-116033

6 www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/saoradh-leader-says-continuation-of-dissident-republican-violence-inevitable-38442074.html

7 www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-48997405

8 www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2019/05/10/news/east-belfast-cultural-collective-established-to-support-smaller-eleventh-night-bonfires-targeted-by-authorities--1616563

9 www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-49234364

10 www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/north-desensitised-to-extreme-violence-conference-told-1.2456091

Cupar Street

1 www.theguardian.com/uk/gallery/2012/jan/22/belfast-peace-wall

2 www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/vow-to-remove-peace-walls-by-2023-29254818.html

3 www.ted.com/talks/lyra_mckee_in_memory_of/transcript

4 share.transistor.fm/s/bbb0f72f

Up to Two a Day

1 www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49152264

2 www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-49316478

Uppa Queers

1 news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4543142.stm

2 www.belfastlive.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/gilbert--george-talk-belfast-14198897

3 qubsinnfein.wordpress.com/2014/10/20/malachai-ohara-queer-eye-for-a-new-ireland

4 www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-northern-ireland-49194678/lgbtq-northern-ireland-i-have-never-experienced-any-hate-crime

Up and Down the Road

1 www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/why-bishop-of-clogher-wrote-to-boris-johnson-over-brexit-and-his-fears-for-the-irish-border-38434783.html

2 www.irishtimes.com/opinion/diarmaid-ferriter-british-indifference-to-irish-border-is-indefensible-1.3476553

3 www.irishtimes.com/opinion/no-deal-brexit-moves-from-fantasy-machismo-into-stark-reality-1.3954889

4 fullfact.org/europe/irish-border-trade

5 www.hongkongfp.com/2017/11/23/irish-minister-suggests-hong-kong-style-deal-post-brexit-northern-ireland

6 qpol.qub.ac.uk/protocol-ireland-northern-ireland

7 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/three-reasons-the-irish-toptop-is-actually-a-good-thing

8 docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/024943_b89b42d32364461298ba5fe7867d82e1.pdf

9 sluggerotoole.com/2019/07/19/brexit-means-that-northern-irelands-constitutional-future-has-become-an-issue-for-europe-says-denis-bradley

10 sluggerotoole.com/2019/06/09/adams-a-referendum-without-a-plan-is-stupid

11 www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/07/31/sinn-fein-will-bitterly-disappointed-think-brexit-will-lead

12 sluggerotoole.com/2019/06/21/how-brexit-changes-a-unionist-to-a-united-irelander

13 www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/james-nesbitt-wants-new-union-of-ireland-as-he-reveals-project-to-give-voice-to-silent-majority-38287899.html

14 www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/orange-order-chief-will-accept-united-ireland-if-majority-votes-for-it-38298886.html

15 www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/britain-has-always-struggled-to-take-ireland-seriously-say-irish-ex-diplomats-1.3981993

16 ibid.

Look Up (Postscript)

1 solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/meteors-and-meteorites/lyrids/in-depth