Category: Video tapes
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Civil Rights
A panel including significant leaders of the Civil Rights movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s including individuals who led the march that ended in the killings of Bloody Sunday. Moderator is an important, centrist, Catholic peace leader, Eamonn Deane. Panelists Ivan Cooper, Eamonn McCann, and Bernadette McAlisky give personal histories, tell recollections of…
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Chris Gilligan
Gilligan has an intellectual position that is critical of the idea of identity. He thinks identities are generally fragmented. For many people, sectarian identity is less important than other issues and commitments in their lives. In this lecture Chris goes over stress, PTSD, and other disorders that lead to counseling, but where he believes objective…
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Catherine Cook
Catherine starts off by describing an event from her past that pushed her towards community development work. She elaborated how if it wasn’t for the conflict, she might not be doing what she is involved in today. Catherine talks about how her life has changed since getting involved with this kind of work. She brings…
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Bishops 2005
This is the third time the two retired Bishops visited our classes. In the first 15 minutes of each tape Edward Daly, the Catholic Bishop, and James Mehaffey, the Anglican Bishop, briefly tell their life histories. This tape has two significant substantive aspects. First, there is discussion of integrated education in Northern Ireland and how…
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Bishops 2004
This is the second time the two retired bishops of the Catholic and Anglican churches of Derry/Londonderry visited the Bucknell class. The beginning gives personal histories of each man. Then they give an important account of the Inner City Trust, a project they jointly worked on with local business leaders, especially Paddy Doherty. The project…
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Arthur Williamson
Overall Professor Williamson gives a brief overview of some aspects of the voluntary and community sector at the present time. He begins by giving a historical background on how the English colonized Ulster. He then goes in depth in talking about the voluntary and community sector which is followed by a question and answer session.…
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Apprentice Boys
These two gentlemen are members of the Apprentice Boys Association and they mainly discuss the details of their organization. The first man, the governor, talks about the current news involving the Apprentice Boys and a brief history of why the organization remembers its past. When the next man joins the governor, he answers questions about…
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Alex Bradley
Bradley is a psychotherapist based in a religious NGO. His talk primarily involves general comments and observations about the events of Bloody Sunday, sectarian conflicts in general, and values statements from Bradley offered in response to student questions about the conflict in Northern Ireland. He continues to talk about the White Oak Center in Donegal,…