Northern Ireland - new material (29)
01 December 1997
The substance of the negotiations, Martin McGuinness. An Phoblacht/Republican News 21.8.97 p9. Sinn Fein spokesman, Martin McGuinness, outlines the areas that the republican movement wants to see on the agenda during peace talks.
Principles and requirements. An Phoblacht/Republican News 16.10.97, pp10-12. This piece reprints Sinn Fein's "submission to Strand One of the Peace Talks at Stormont." It proposes the principles and requirements as necessary elements of a new democratic accommodation and settlement...acceptable to all the people of Ireland.
Orangism: Myth and Reality Peter Berresford Ellis. Connolly Association 1997 pp12. This pamphlet contains a talk by the author presented in Dublin in 1995 and outlines the history of the Orange Order. It laments their current sectarian bigotry, fuelled by a mythological history that hides "the reality of a common past".
Just News Vol. 12 nos 9 & 10 (September-October) 1997. The two latest issues of Just News contain articles on the Labour Party's largely symbolic decision to drop internment without trial from the Emergency Provisions proposals for a Bill of Rights the Police & Criminal Evidence Act in Northern Ireland European Convention on Human Rights equality law and community policing. Available from CAJ 45/47 Donegall Street Belfast BT1 2FG.
Parliamentary debates
Northern Ireland Lords 22.10.97. cols. 759-798 Official Report of the Grand Committee on the Public Processions etc (Northern Ireland) Bill Lords 12.11.97. cols CWH1-52 Official Report of the Grand Committee on the Public Processions etc (Northern Ireland) Bill Lords 13.11.97. cols CWH53-86 Northern Ireland (Emergency provisions) Bill Commons 18.11.97, cols. 168-219