Useful Links
RESEARCH AND STATISTICS
- ARK A Northern Ireland Social & Political Archive.
ARK is a joint resource between the two Northern Ireland universities.ARK has a single goal:to make social science information on N.I. available to the widest possible audience.This resource is used by researchers,policymakers,community and other voluntary groups,schoolchildren and their teachers.
- CAIN Web Site (Conflict Archive on the Internet)
This site contains information and source material on "the Troubles" in Northern Ireland from 1968 to the present.
- Central Community Relations Unit
Historical web site which currently contains a wide range of material including research and statistics and general information on the work of the unit.
- INCORE International Conflict Research
INCORE is a joint project of the United Nations University and the University of Ulster.Combining research,education and comparative analysis,INCORE addresses the causes and consequences of conflict in Northern Ireland and internationally and promotes conflict resolution management strategies.It aims to influence policymakers and practitioners involved in peace,conflict and reconciliation issues while enhancing the nature of international conflict research.
- Irish Times newspaper site
This site includes an excellent section "The Path to Peace" which includes a good historical overview.
- Raising Standards in Schools
A site giving advice on raising standards in schools
- The Plantation of Ulster
Northern Ireland's religious and political conflict can be traced to the 17th century Plantation of Ulster when English and Scottish Protestants settled on land confiscated from the Gaelic Irish. The BBC NI Learning Plantation website presents Gaelic Ireland before the Plantation as well as taking a detailed look at the impact of the English and Scottish planters, the role of the London Companies, and the overall course and effects of the Plantation.
- The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
- The Troubles
'The Troubles' refers to the period of violent conflict in Northern Ireland from the Civil Rights marches in the late 1960s to the political resolution enshrined in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. During that time more than 3,000 people were killed, most of them civilians.
The BBC NI Learning website covered the period of violent conflict in Northern Ireland using articles, video footage, audio clips and photographs to take the user on a trip of the most important historical events of this period. A section on the origins of the Troubles provides an historical backdrop to the 1921 partition settlements that led to 50 years of Unionist rule in Northern Ireland. A second chapter looks at how a loyalist strike in May 1974 brought power-sharing to an end. There are two further sections looking at hunger-strikes and the 1998 Good Friday/Belfast Agreement.
The site includes fact-files, a timeline, a feature on the shared music tradition and a gallery of murals depicting the political are of both traditions.
- Ulster Historical Foundation
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