Transcript Pete Shirlow presentation

The Context for CRED
Pete Shirlow
Queen’s University Belfast
You coasted along
To larger houses, gadgets, more machines
To golf and weekend bungalows,
Caravans when the children were small,
the Mediterranean, later, with the wife.
When that noisy preacher started,
he seemed old-fashioned, a survival.
Later you remarked on his vehemence,
a bit on the rough side.
But you said, admit, you said in the club,
‘You know, there’s something in what he says’.
Caifé Gaelach
The coffee was conceived after a group of
American passengers disembarked (Shannon)
from a Pan Am flying boat on a miserable
winter evening in the 1940s. Sheridan added
whiskey to the coffee to warm the passengers.
After the passengers asked if they were being
served Brazilian coffee, Sheridan told them it
was "Irish coffee“. It was then spread to USA by
a travel writer.
The shamrock first began to change from a symbol purely associated with St.
Patrick to an Irish national symbol when it was taken up as an emblem by rival
militias, during the turbulent politics of the late eighteenth century.
On one side were the Volunteers (also known as the Irish Volunteers), who
were local militias in late 18th century Ireland, raised to defend Ireland from the
threat of French and Spanish invasion when regular British soldiers were
withdrawn from Ireland to fight during the American Revolutionary War.
On the other side were revolutionary nationalist groups, such as the United
Irishmen.
The United Irishmen adopted green.
"The radical biblicism of Ulster Presbyterians meant
that they took most seriously scriptural concern for
social and political justice. When oppressive,
despotic government denied them civil and religious
liberty, liberal Presbyterians in late 18th century
Ulster began to clamor for constitutional reform of
their (Irish-based) British parliament. Political
questions, they contended, were ultimately moral
and religious concerns and Presbyterians saw it as
their duty to create a just society; the state needs be
'born again.'
The remarks attributed to National Volunteer and poet, Francis Ledwidge, who was to
die in preparation of the Third battle of Ypres in 1917, perhaps best exemplifies the
changing Irish nationalist sentiment towards, enlisting, the War, and to the Germans
and British.
"I joined the British Army because she stood between Ireland and an enemy of
civilisation and I would not have her say that she defended us while we did nothing
but pass resolutions".
After the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising were executed during his military leave, he
said:
"If someone were to tell me now that the Germans were coming in over our back
wall, I wouldn’t lift a finger to stop them. They could come!"
Complicated Histories?
1) Brian Boru ‘defeated’ the Vikings with the assistance of Vikings!
2) The first Attorney General of NI was a Catholic Official unionist;
3) In 1155, the Pope issued a papal bull (known as Laudabiliter) that gave Henry II
permission to invade Ireland as a means of strengthening the Papacy's control over the
Irish Church. The Laudabiliter enforced Papal suzerainty not only over Ireland but of all
islands off the European coast, including Britain, in virtue of the Constantinian
Donation.
4) To the Irish the Williamite War was known as An Cogadh na dá Righ (the war of the two
Kings) but in reality it was merely a part of the dispute between William and King Louis
XlV of France. William supported by Pope, no white horse and the decisive battle was
Aughrim;
5) Cypriot teachers?
6) What about the Suffragettes?
In Ulster where over 20 suffrage societies
Dora Mellone of the northern committee of the IWSF spoke in Hyde Park in
London in 1913 and told the huge crowd that Irish suffrage societies were;
Of all shades of political opinion, we have nationalists and unionists, orange and
green, extremist and moderate. These women agreeing in nothing else agree on
this one point... no one else has ever done this; the IWSF is the only political
organisation which has ever held the north and south together..
1914 20 post boxes were attacked in Belfast
Abbeylands, the Whiteabbey mansion of Sir Hugh McCalmont was attacked,
Orlands, another large house at Kilroot near Carrickfergus was destroyed by
a fire set by the suffragettes. Many of the attacks were aimed at property
associated with unionism. Windows were smashed at unionist headquarters
and members of the WSPU broke into the home of James Craig, the unionist
deputy leader, and the home of the Lord Mayor of Belfast was also targeted.
Public property also came under attack. Newtownards Race Stand in Co
Down, Ballylesson Church in Lisburn. Golf greens were destroyed, Cavehill
Bowling and Tennis Club in north Belfast was extensively damaged after an
early form of petrol bomb attack, the Tea House at Bellevue and the
Annadale Hall in south Belfast were destroyed by incendiary devices.
One suffragette even forced her way into the offices of Ulster's most
prominent newspapers offices to slap the faces of their editors who
disagreed publically with the suffragette militancy.
On the 3rd July 1914 the suffragettes bombed the Church of Ireland
cathedral in Lisburn.
Moving On.
Plan
Aims and Objectives
Increase pupil
awareness
Key Indicators
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Establishing what we want to deliver;
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Determining key messages and concerns (Cypriot teachers);
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How do we measure success?
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What will be the stages of development?
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Who will lead?
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How do we ensure that this is not a going through the motions
exercise?
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Challenging and channelling commitment!
Plan
Delivery
Reflecting our
ambition to
progress with
suitable resources
Key Indicators
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Do you possess the materials to present evidence-led
histories?
How do we produce materials and knowledge transfer
between staff and stimulating a culture of opportunity?
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How do we develop confidence to engage in alternative
thinking?
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How do we share knowledge and experience?
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How do we sustain the project?
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What is it that we are promoting?
Possible outcomes
Plan
Possible Outcomes
Futures
Key Indicators
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What would we wish to?
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Is relationship-building enough?
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The opportunity of knowledge?
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Knowledge is transferred, commitment is achieved
and pearls are cast!