Claire Hanna is International Secretary of the SDLP and chairs the Balmoral South Belfast Branch. She works for the development agency Concern Worldwide. You come from a political family. When did you start to get…
Posts By Jenny Muir
Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the 20th Century
Book review: ‘Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the 20th Century’ by Sheila Rowbotham (Verso, 2010) This inspiring book examines how women challenged many aspects of public and private life between the 1880s…
The 2010 General Election – A Turning Point for Northern Ireland?
The dust is still settling on the results over the water, and it’ll be some time before we know the composition of the next UK government. So that’s the subject of another post. However, it…
An interview with John Barry
John Barry is Associate Director of the Institute for a Sustainable World and Reader in Politics both at Queen’s University Belfast. He was educated at University College Dublin and the University of Glasgow. From 2003-2009…
Are We There Yet?
So the DUP and Sinn Féin have managed to negotiate their way through the disaster scenarios to a deal. No walkouts, elections or joint authority after all. The agreement is now out for consultation, so…
Moving Away From Ethnic Politics
The number of unresolved issues in the Northern Ireland Assembly is increasing – such as the transfer test replacement, the new good relations strategy, the Review of Public Administration and, of course, the devolution of…
How Not to Campaign for a United Ireland
Gerry Adams outlined Sinn Féin’s new campaign for a united Ireland in the Guardian yesterday. The London launch of the campaign took place on Tuesday evening, following a similar event in New York. If I…
Well Done, Lads
So the Romanians intimidated out of their homes in South Belfast have decided to leave Northern Ireland. No surprises there. Of course the majority of people in Northern Ireland are ashamed and disgusted by this…
Building a Platform for Change: An Interview with Robin Wilson
Robin Wilson is an independent policy analyst based in Belfast. He is co-leader of the Northern Ireland devolution monitoring team-part of a UK-wide project co-ordinated by the Constitution Unit in London-which provided the Northern Ireland…
A Missed Opportunity
Recently on South Belfast Diary I leaked the draft Section 8 of Labour’s 21st Century Commission, dealing with Party organisation in Northern Ireland. Since 2002, the Irish Labour Party has allowed membership in the North….
It Ain’t Over ’Til It’s Over
Well, it’s been a busy few weeks trying to keep up with the US Presidential election campaign and the global economic crisis, to say nothing of trying to do some work occasionally.So, inevitably, the campaign…
A Place called Unity
Obama’s nomination acceptance speech last Thursday (text | video) was never going to fall flat on its face. Compared to previous set piece events, the rhetoric was toned down and the content improved – all…
Sins of the Father
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