Derry City Council (Irish: Comhairle Cathrach Dhoire; Ulster-Scots: Derry Cittie Cooncil) was the local government authority for the city of Derry[a] in Northern Ireland. It merged with Strabane District Council in April 2015 under local government reorganisation to become Derry and Strabane District Council.The council provided services to nearly 108,000 people, making it the third-largest of the then 26 district councils in Northern Ireland by population. The council was made up of 30 councillors, elected every four years from five electoral areas and held its meetings in The Guildhall. The mayor for the final 2014–2015 term was Brenda Stevenson of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, with Gary Middleton of the Democratic Unionist Party serving as deputy mayor.
With an interest in oral history as well as book history, this reviewer could not have failed to be attracted to this title. It is difficult to convey how enjoyable this wonderfully paced collection is to read: interviews to savour, which are perceptive, poignant, frequently moving, and often hilarious. Far richer than the reconstructions in Peter Isaac and Barry McKay’s book on The Human Face of the Book Trade: Print Culture and its Creators (1999), this edited volume on the book trade reproduces testimonies recorded for the oral history project ‘Book Trade Lives’, which itself derives from a larger ‘National Life Stories’ project at the British Library Sound Archive, collecting and preserving ordinary people’s stories across various industries and trades. Asking Penelope Lively to provide the foreword was inspired: as an interviewee for a different, forthcoming National Life Stories project, Authors’ Lives, she writes with both the authority of someone who has contributed to oral history research and as someone who, as an author, is directly affected by the decisions, practices, and traditions of those in the book trade. Not given to hyperbole, the measured tone of her forward is exemplary. The book also includes a comprehensive and highly usable index, notes on contributors, and suggestions for further reading. Informative yet unobtrusive footnotes assist readers by contextualizing extracts.
Enforcing the English Reformation in Ireland. Clerical resistance and political conflict in the diocese of Dublin, 1534–1590. By James Murray. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.) Pp. xvi+358 incl. 3 tables. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. £60. 978 0 521 77038 5 - Volume 60 Issue 4
This paper examines the social-psychological factors often implicated in discussions of terrorist violence/martyrdom, with a particular focus on the role of religion. We offer a brief description of the psychological theories underpinning terrorist research before focusing on social-psychological factors. The roles of psychopathology, irrationality and grievance/threat are examined, followed by empirical research on the beliefs which have been associated with the perpetration and support of terrorist violence, and the social factors which foster those beliefs, including social identity, socially carried interpretations, group leadership and individual differences. Although religion is not a single, simple causal factor in terrorist violence, religious elements often feature strongly in the belief systems associated with terrorist violence, and can also feature in other important fostering factors for terrorist violence, such as the use of rhetoric. Finally, the status of lay explanations of terrorist violence, focusing on the role of religious fundamentalism is examined.
EDITOR, - In his enthusiasm to write a polemic on poor children in rich countries Martin McKee has departed from his usual rigorous standards1. In highlighting teenage suicide and expanding to an attack on the socioeconomic systems of much of the Western world he is defying logic in arguing from the smallest of the particular to the largest of the general. With regard to the …
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