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100 years on: partition of Ireland explained

University of Rochester
University of Rochester historian Stewart Weaver explains the causes and consequences of the partition of Ireland in 1921.
The year 2021 marks 100 years since the Government of the United Kingdom and Ireland divided the Emerald Isle into two self-governing political entities-Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland-under the Government of Ireland Act. What was intended as a temporary solution in the face of unrest, violence, and rebellion is still in effect a century later, as Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
According to Stewart Weaver, a professor of history at the University of Rochester, over time both sides developed two very different and incompatible conceptions of what it means to be Irish: One Catholic, republican, and nationalist, and the other Protestant, loyalist, and unionist. “Of course, they’re all Irish, but they just have fundamentally different conceptions of what that means,” says Weaver. “Conflicted meaning ....

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We Don't Need This Fascist Groove Thing

We Don t Need This Fascist Groove Thing
A walk through underrated protest music of decades past.
The 1980s are often regarded as a time when pop music became unbearably superficial. Legend has it that MTV produced an era that was style over substance, manipulated by over-involved corporate lackeys, which is how We Built This City happened. While there s a kernel of truth to that assessment, the reality is far more interesting.
The greed is good decade was an unexpected golden age of protest music where no topic was off limits, usually with a danceable beat. Musicians that grew up on the countercultural soundtrack of the 1960s and 70s gave the 80s a lot more intellectual diversity than Top 40 radio would indicate. Spending their childhoods under the shadow of the Cold War and watching the folly of the Vietnam War on television, this generation of artists were often using their work to explore the consequences of what they perceived as avarice ....

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