The Royal Irish Academy and the University of Notre Dame launched the Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South (ARINS) initiative with a view to generating authoritative, independent and non-partisan research and analysis on a range of important issues for contemporary Ireland.
Together with the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice (Queen’s University Belfast), the Royal Irish Academy and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies (University of Notre Dame) initiated this Conversations on Britishness and Irishness series in 2023, as a way of facilitating open and respectful discussion about cultural and political identities in and relating to Ireland.
This event took place at the Royal Irish Academy (19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2) at 12:30 on 15 October 2024.
The conversation with Dame Louise Richardson was hosted by Richard English, followed by questions from the audience.
Dame Louise Richardson DBE is president of the philanthropic foundation Carnegie Corporation of New York. Previously, she served as vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford and of the University of St. Andrews, and as executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. A widely recognized expert on terrorism and international relations, she is the recipient of numerous fellowships, awards, and honorary doctorates. Born in Ireland, Richardson received a BA in history from Trinity College Dublin, an MA in political science from UCLA, and an MA and PhD in government from Harvard University, where she spent 20 years on the faculty of the Department of Government.
Richard English is Director of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast. His books include the award-winning studies Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA (2003) and Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland (2006). His most recent books are Does Counter-Terrorism Work? (2024) and Does Terrorism Work? A History (2016). He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, and in 2019 was awarded the Academy’s Gold Medal in the Social Sciences.
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Very encouraging to listen to a learned, cultural, Sherpa to tell their story in an organic, respectful and constructive manner. Key out take: allow the young to be exposed to diversity of culture and opinion within an environment that everyone and their existence has equity. Creating that very environment is the challenge m.
I do agree that there is no real malice behind British ignorance about Ireland, it is just complete indifference. Thankfully Britain's belligerent presence is dwindling by the day, and is rapidly becoming irrelevant to Ireland in return. Who knows, you might even screw up the courage to drop the 'Royal' from your Irish Academy some day.
Pity there wasn't an Irish person on the panel, just some Dame Commander of the British Empire, extolling the virtues of rejoining the British Commonwealth of uncle Toms, amongst other things. I would love to see a United Ireland some day, and just that…….not some 'shared' diluted monstrosity, geared towards appeasing 800K Unionists on an island of 7 million. There is no appeasing them, maybe THEY could apologize to us for the 103 years of the Apartheid anti-Catholic statelet first. I can wait.
These people love the word nuanced. It's used to earse the history of colonialism genocidal wars, the destruction and erasure of Irish resistance against imperialism. They have accepted the baubles of a system. A system that in this moment of history its military wing is involved in a genocidal war agaist Palestinians
Scratch under the surface and her true opinions comes through.
Why do Europeans believe that Harris can win this election after the Democrats screwed Americans over for the last four years so completely?
The British are a very moral people, they keep voting war criminals into power. Ask the Palestinians. The United Kingdom of Amnesia.