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  1. Jan 2022
    1. "Maybe it doesn't want to die

      Awesome. Capturing an experience while having some kind of focus, maybe not a "theme" but definitely the thing that sparked them wanting to write it. The kernal at the heart of the experience?

    2. The man in a leather apron was just about to cut the chicken's throat. The man in the apron took a knife

      transition awkward. Who is this guy? Such a pivital scene but grammar and such ruin it

    1. ur proposal is consistent with the historical clinical descriptions, estimated death rates, importation and distribution of its reservoir host, inoculation of the agent in multiple suitable nidalities, spread to other mammalian reservoirs, hyperendemicity, ecologic factors favoring repeated exposure and transmission, and known high-risk activities of the indigenous population.

      BASICALLY -> hypothesis based on CONSISTANCY with historical descriptions of symptoms and the facts on the ground for risk

    2. entire families to enter sweat lodges followed by immediate immersion in cooling streams and ponds; sweat lodges were considered vivifiers and cure-alls for illnesses, a practice that may have reexposed the already ill to contaminated water.

      IND HEALING PRACTICES WORSEN EPIDEMIC

    3. Attendance of the ill and burial of the dead (including those who died from Weil syndrome) would have attracted others who shared local food, water, and camp grounds. I

      IMPORTANT -> WHY RISK

    4. reemerging infection with identifiable risk factors, including immersion in fresh water, exposure to contaminated soil, and antecedent heavy rains

      Risk factors

    5. ellow fever is not a plausible explanation given the routes of the trans-Atlantic slave trade at the time.

      Counter to Yellow Fever hypothesis -> slave trade contact minimal in region at time

    6. e, yet he cited Gookin from 1674: “I have discoursed with old Indians, who were then youths, who say that the bodies all over were exceedingly yellow, describing it by a yellow garment they showed me, both before they died and afterwards.” T

      Descriptions of symptoms

    7. he black rat and mice were universal companions on ships and must have established themselves early on the coastal mainland, seeking harborage in and around Native American households.

      Fro mships / coast of Eng -> mention on logs

    8. ng the coast”

      Archaeological (bio) evidence (tree rings) to support primary source evidence of accounts of men dying out

      Flaw: no Ind sources, so can never know for sure

    9. ustoms that may have been instrumental to the near annihilation of Native Americans, which facilitated successful colonization of the Massachusetts Bay area.

      Ind customs partly to blame for accessing this water ?

    10. leptospirosis complicated by Weil syndrome

      Ind died en masse before large settlements in NE (Plymouth) -> usually said to be smallpox. Here Leptoirosis and Weil. From rodents from Euro ships contaminating water

    1. When they turn them, a whole side will flay off at once as it were, and they will be all of a gore blood, most fearful to behold.

      Ind conditions worsening because of treatment? Mats they lie on?

    2. F · I d · · d ch •1 1 a1 e · or It P e ase God to v1 s1t these Indians with a orea t s ickness an su mortality that of a thous and

      More God interveneing (after Dutch show up that is, don't link the dots)

    3. G ods hand hath so pur-sued them, as for 300 miles space, the greatest parte of them are swept awaye by the small poxe

      Think God is clearing land for them -> justification by divine right "cleared" / empty lands

    4. vember 3: came now home, havinge lost themselves & endured muche miserye. they en.formed us, that the small poxe was gone as farr as any Indian plantation was knowne to the we st & muche people dead of it. by reason wherof they could have no trade.

      Socioeconomic consequences -> trade routes / partners disrupted by plague

    5. cured by suche meanes as they had rom us. Were kept by the English

      Children had better immunity?

      Sharing of cures, evidence that settlers did care / want ind alive. -> nah most died soon after

      ALSO -> IND HAVE ENGLISH NAMES BY THIS POINT -> promise to live with Eng if recovered. (so help conditional?) -> AND SERVE GOD -> baptism as cure remember

      Also genocide by stealing children?

    6. f great store of raine, and some cold northerly windes bloweinge with all, in a moment, and when noe man durst so much as hope for so happy a tume, thes mightie armies of ravenous ratts are clean taken awaye,

      Cleared away by nature in the end, shows even invasive species not impervious to new world tricks?

      Instead, wild cats march on having been fed -> so entire food chains replaced and have massive implications.

      LIKENS WILD CATS TO RETURNING TO WILDERNESS LIKE "WILD MEN" -> think wilderness is corrupting influence -> calls wild men thankless "first tameness" -> like state of nature/uncivilized?Might not be correct reading after all

    7. first brought in by the runne away frigate from the West Indies,

      Rats brought in

      Thrive in alien conditions "more apt to nourish them, shelter"

      Governors don't do anything

      "Utterly devour everything" -> like native grasses sucumbing to livestock. Were unaccustomed / adapted to pastoral animals and died out quickly because couldn't recover

      Also try to kill rats with poison -> poisons much of island Burning to get rid of them (learned from ind? waste wood (timber)

      EVIDENCE LIKE THE BLAST FUNGUS -> EUROPEAN / OLD WORLD RELATIONSHIPS WITH NATURE REPLACE THOSE IN THE NEW WORLD. colonists carving out own universe, ignoring old.

      Massive reach -> discover fish three leagues out to sea with rats in bellies.

    1. ut him in the company of other more conservative Russian noblemen who may at one time have themselves shared the conspirators’ ideas but quickly realized how mistaken they were to have attempted to promote them by recourse to violence. This was in any case certainly the position of the majority of the Russian nobility.

      So in end, many "liberal" or liberally slanted/curious nobles were shocked by Dec 14 and thus shifted into conservatism

    2. cording to Turgenev, the members of the first ‘German-style’ secret societies intended merely to promote the government's own reformist indications,

      Key point: not revolt out right -> acting on Alexs' baiting and generally trying to work out constitutional/serfdom issues

    3. hat is the sudden kind that occurred in France; he wrote, explaining that he understood revolution in Russia to mean: ‘progressive changes for the good of all, which should take place, ‘slowly, step by step, under the government’s direction, with the citizenry doing only what they could for it

      Gradualist "revolution"

    4. ‘infectious disease; or ‘a French sickness, which Russian officers brought back with them from the West:

      Revolutionary fervor as infectious disease from the west

    5. Decembrists without Dec

      Definitely clear that not everyone on square was fully on board with open revolt or even aware of leaders' intentions

      Memoir of Kamenskaia -> flee scene and joined by Finnish soldiers in house

    6. civil

      Energy should be put to good use. Organizing lives around what they want to do and what will help country/people instead of useless regimented military lives

    7. fulfil my duty solely out of love for the fatherland.

      Overall, pursuit of idividual self actualization out of love for country. Opposed to Alex, very religious ?

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    1. prisons and corners of London are full of decayed marchantes overthrowen by losse at sea, by usuerers,96 suerti-shippe and by sondry other suche meanes, and dare or cannott for their debtes shewe their faces, and in truthe many excellent giftes be in many of these men, and their goodd giftes are not ymployed to any manner of use, nor are not like of themselves to procure libertie to employe them-selves.

      using criminals locked away by debtors

    2. to kepe men occupied from worse cogitations, and to raise their myndes to courage and highe enterprizes and to make them lesse careles for the better shonnynge88

      Educating men on evils of Spanish conquest

    3. hat there be appointed one or twoo preachers for the voyadge that God may be honoured, the people instructed, mutinies the better avoided, and obedience the better used, that the voyadge may have the better successe

      Forgotten lol

    4. r Majestie and her sub-jectes may bothe enjoye the tr~asure of the mynes of golde and silver, and the whole trade and all the gaine of the trade of marchandize that nowe passeth thither by the Spaniarde

      Cause rebellion in spanish colonies so can get access to their trade

    5. ll seate upon that firme of America, and shalbe reported throughoute all that tracte to use the naturall people there with all humanitie, curtesie, and freedome

      Treat natives well, spanish bad

    6. England plante sincere relligion, and provide a safe and a sure place to receave people from all partes of the worlde that are forced to flee for the truthe of gods worde.

      religious justification

    7. thoute sworde drawen, wee shall cutt the combe26 of the frenche, of the spanishe, of the portingale, and of enemies, and of doubtful! frendes to the abatinge of their wealthe and force, and to the greater savinge of the wealthe of the Realme

      Industry and agricultural wealth will embaress other empires w/o drawing swords

    8. by husbandrie and by thousandes of thinges there to be don, infinite nombers of the english nation may be sett on worke to the unburdenynge of the Realme with many that nowe lyve chardgeable to the state at home

      Again, agriculture in empty fields

    9. Norumbega forren princes cus-tomes are avoided, and the forren commodities cheapely purchased, they become cheape to the subjectes of England to the comm

      Trade war w/ Spain

    10. It commeth nowe so to passe that by the greate endevo' of the increase of the trade of wolles in Spaine and in the west Indies nowe daily more and more multiplienge, That the wolles of England and the clothe made of the same, will become base,

      Competition w/ Spain who have better new world wools

    11. . That the Spaniardes have executed most outragious and more then Turkishe8 cruelties in all the west Indies,

      We're traders not conquerers (unlike Spain)

    12. nothinge so large as ys generally ymagined and surmised, neither those partes which he holdeth be of any such forces as ys falsly geven oute by the popishe6

      Reference to illegitimacy of papal bull (Pope didn't have right, also not just right of discovery, needed right of dominion/agriculture)

    13. Silver that the Spanish brought back from their explorations. English promoters often noted that the Spanish had profited handsomely from their overseas ventures, and they argued that these profits strengthened the forces of the Catholic Church.

      Catholicism as enemy

    1. love constitutional institutions and believe that any reasonable individual would too. But can they be introduced indiscriminately to all peoples? They are, after all, surely not all equally ready to adopt them.

      Referring to nobility here or people?

    2. ot yet devised any practical way of reducing the nobility’s powers over their ‘actual slaves, the enserfed peasantry,

      Also critical of uneducated nobility (and unpatriotic around Russian spirit) and inability of reform to get rid of serfdom

    3. England’s long and tortuous path towards the same goal,

      Overall: Nobility looking to western exmples to justify or go againat reform (France and revolution, long English process

    4. by bringing Alexander popularity unmatched either before or after it, the victory of 1812 provided the Russian ruling elite with just the impetus required to set Russia on a new course.

      thesis

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    1. allowing landowners to demand that the government purchase serfs and land atprices specified for each province, through the issuing of assignats or bonds

      Arakcheev and buy outs

    2. like Storch, Mordvinov believed that serfdom was inefficient,costly, and destructive of Russian prosperity. In his scheme for self-redemption Mordvinovtried to link emancipation, which he considered natural and inevitable, to capital formation,which he believed was essential. Since serfdom was economically undesirable forlandowners, selling freedom to peasants industrious enough to amass a steep redemptionprice (and thus, presumably, to support themselves in freedom) was an elegant solutionthat would put capital in landowners’ hands and require them to continue “supporting”the weaker, naturally dependent, serfs. By these means, “the number of free people inRussia would gradually increase.”5

      Mental gymnastics to why extortionate self redemption was good, actually. Industrious peasants were hard workers and would be able to buy themselves out and then support themselves upon freedom (removing dependence), they would also generate capital for the landowners buy buying themselves. Weaker peasants would remain dependent on landowners, enshrining their right to support from the land. -> overall more free people in Russia

    3. Even liberal Russians wereaffected by their country’s hard-won victory over the regime that Revolution had spawned.To man Nature had granted freedom of action, mind, and will, but people who had livedfor ages without civil liberties were not likely to employ them usefully without educationin citizenship. Such people might safely pass from dependence to independence only iftheir emancipation were gradually established by law.

      Why they didn't want sudden reforms (fear of revolution/people not using freedom wisely)

    4. because masters oftenhad to make up work for their excess slaves; because slaves retained in agriculture werenot available for industry or other productive labor; because slaves required greatersurveillance than free workers, rendering their upkeep more expensive; and because slavesconsumed more than free workers, not for pleasure, but through theft, waste, andcarelessness.43 The great sin of slavery was, therefore, that it undermined the productionof wealth—that personal wealth that was the essence of national wealth.

      ECONOMIC arguments against slavery/serfdom appear (political economy)

      Builds off of wealth of nations assertions that goal of national ecoomy is to generate maximum wealth. -> slavery undermines personal wealth, key ingredient for national wealth/development

    5. An emancipatedserf would not be sovereign, or free, if he had lost all right to use his hereditary land andwas compelled to enter into contracts with his former master from such a weak position.

      More on property and peasant emancipation

    6. Noble landowners had the right to state and press their views directly to thesovereign, whereas peasant communities did not.

      All a matter of recognizing rights really

    7. their liberationfrom the great inconvenience of “dependency” was emphasized, whereas the earlier Livlandscheme had overlooked that disadvantage while emphasizing hereditary use rights

      Evidenced by the LANGUAGE of the decrees -> both employ enlightenment terms of dependency, just the focus on who's dependency / rights are being centered shifts. Mutual recognition of property and such rights for both nobles and peasants

    8. respected and acknowledged noble privileges, certainly no less than peasants’ hereditaryrights. If the emperor appeared inconsistent in embracing different, and even contradictory,principles of emancipation, it is because he accepted the increasingly irreconcilable “rights”of both groups.

      Why Alex embraced seemingly contradictory / opposite approaches to Peasant emancipation in the provinces

    9. Any steps they took must bedesigned to avoid both the reaction that had undone Joseph II’s legislation and theunthinkable fate of the French Bourbons

      Balance between backlash from conservatives and terror from revolutionaries

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  2. Dec 2021
    1. rather than religion?

      Still wanted to Christianize the slaves/Africans -> mission to do so and save their souls. Paternalistic view.

      Already also tapped into longstanding transatlantic slave trade between Iberian powers - and later English ad French and Duch- who themselves tapped int oAfrican trade. So already precedent that they just had to justify based on something

    1. rks C

      Conc: ceremony necessary to confirm continued line of kingdom and family / fertility of both

      Demands same price from daughters (everything, match his obsession)

      Creates structural circle in which marriage bonds are disrupted and handover incomplete/kingdom handover corrupted along way

      Chaos ensues

      Cordelia returns literally just to complete circle, Lear refuses to budge and they die.

      Dead father with three dead daughters at end

      Only Albany (widower) and Edgar (unmarried son) both NON-Traditional / useless figures in tehse family structures are left alive in scene

    2. rewrote the source play Leir to make Cordelia re- main in England alone (rather than with France at her side) to fight, lose, and die with her father, a revision that vividly illustrates the tragic failure of the family unit to divide, recombine

      Example of Shake REWRITING / AUTHORIAL INTENT

    3. aracterizes her life with France as having been one of constant mourning for the father to whom she is still bound.

      Implies cannot love husband because of this

    4. ardelia-tike-Rosalind- aust therefore return to be reincorporated with her father before she can undergo the ritual severance that will enable her to progress.

      Circular structure: needs to RETURN to ceremony/father in order to acquire blessing before moving on with life

    5. ial of the father's blessing renders the separation incomplete and the daughter’s future blight

      DAUGHTER's FUTURE is ruined/threatened because Lear won't give blessing explicitly by not completeing ritual. Puts her at jeapordy

    6. precludes the possibility of transformation, for the father devours the flesh he begets. Here, generation becomes pri- marily an autogamous act, a retenti

      INTERUPTS GENERATIONAL TRANSITIONS. Role as father thrarted AND king because ascension of kingdom to new generatoion also tampered with

    7. visual and verbal t

      Tie this into how drama uses visual cues/tools in addition to textual ones for our understanding. Can probably say that implied cues are fair game for analysis (especially since Boose points it out)

    8. France himself then endows Lear's “dow’rless daughter” with all his worldly goods by making her “queen of us, of ours, and our fair France”

      France following his role obediantly

    9. circularity of Lear's proposition frus- trates the ritual phase of separation

      LEARS PLAN IS DOOMED FROM START -> designed to trap Cordelia.

      Can't marry (as Cordelia points out) if she loves him all, but will relinquish her dowry (kingdom -> public and private here too) if refusing this, thereby also rendering the functional aspect of marriage worthless.

      Ties Public and private lives together here -> Kingdom as dowry and is being reckless with handing it out

    10. than expels from it the daughter he says is “adopted to our hate” (203), another verbal us- age that betrays his retentive motivés~

      ALL ABOUT RETENTION WHEN Looking at Lear's choice of DICTION (adopted to our hate, etc)

    11. substituting his public paternity for hts private one, the inherently indivisible entity for the one that biologically must divide and recombine, Lear violates both his kingly role in the hierarchical universe and his domestic one in the family.

      VIOLATES BOTH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIVES AND ROLES AS KING AND FATHER

    12. Within the father-daughter plays,

      Backs this up by cross examining Shakespeare's works as the "father daughter plays" : evidence that this all continued across his catelogue and drew on archetypes (psych/internal?) -> clear authorial intent

    Annotators

    1. We share the hope, expressed by many on all sides, that policing in Northern Ireland can be normalised as soon as the security situation permits.

      Policing to repubs as decomm is to loyalists -> shows collusion thoughts?

    2. parties should consider an approach under which some decommissioning would take place during the process of all-party negotiations, rather than before or after as the parties now urge

      HAPPENS ALONGSIDE

    3. One side has insisted that some decommissioning of arms must take place before all-party negotiations can begin. The other side has insisted that no decommissioning can take place until the end of the process, after an agreed settlement has been reached. This has resulted in the current impasse.

      SUMMARY OF CONFLICT

    4. Those who demand decommissioning prior to all-party negotiations do so out of concern that the paramilitaries will use force, threaten to use force, to influence the negotiations, or to change any aspect of the outcome of negotiations with which they disagree.

      Unionist fears

    5. To urge that 'punishment' killings and beatings stop and to take effective steps to prevent such actions.

      Mentions this several times - evidence that while ceasefires were in effect, violence was still high in some areas internally? (UDA?)

    6. o agree that such disarmament must be verifiable to the satisfaction of an independent commission;

      For this one, show contentions over who and how IRA should decom.

    7. Everyone with whom we spoke agrees in principle with the need to decommission. There are differences on the timing and context -

      Cite who wants Decom here and different contexts. GOOD OPENER? Adams and such as decom later, Unionists pre condition

    8. symptom of a larger problem: the absence of trust. Common to many of our meetings were arguments, steeped in history, as to why the other side cannot be trusted

      Claim mistrust the key blockade here - who's mistrusting who?

    9. minant theme expressed in the many letters and calls we received from those in the North and South, Unionist and Nationalist, Catholic and Protestant, Loyalist and Republican.

      NO ONE WANTS PARA VIOLENCE BY THIS POINT - any stats?

    10. For nearly a year and a half the guns have been silent in Northern Ireland.

      Contextualize this- just IRA? Also say this is all AFTER UVF/UDA ceasefire - evidence that yes, people DID want peace (Spence apologizing)

    11. he tireless and courageous efforts of Prime Minister John Major and Taoiseach John Bruton (and before him Albert Reynolds) have been essential to the peace process.

      Contextualize what they're talking about here - what measures?

    12. Contributions from those who suffered losses

      Input from VICTIMS of conflict -> who are victims? Identify Unionist vs Cath perspectives? Why they each wanted/didn't want Decom?

    13. tue of the welcome decisions taken last summer and autumn by those organisations that previously supported the use of arms for political purposes.

      ceasefire?

    1. Originally a Bobby Sands memorial, the monument now includes the names of those other IRA Volunteers from the Twinbrook and Poleglass areas who died in the struggle. It was re-dedicated and unveiled by Sinn F�in president Gerry Adams.

      REPUB hodge podge of causes

    2. On the evening of July 9th 1972 British marksmen mounted an unprovoked and sustained attack on this community among the snipers victims lay 5 dead gunned down during efforts to bring aid and succour to the wounded Still yet waiting for justice to their memory and for freedom of the truth

      Mentions truth - seeking truth commission?

      Civ centered but singles out British army. In this case might be valid idk.

      Adams blessing

      Personal quotes and such

    3. Mosaic reading "We remember their selfless courage Life spills on warm summer streets Our taken treasure innocence Our children neighbours priest Their selfless courage we remember".

      Courage? Are they not civs?

    4. morial stone. From top to bottom - Julie's photograph. Name "Julie Livingstone" accompanied by a small brass image of a doll; plaque reading: "In loving memory of Julie Livingstone Killed by a plastic bullet 13th May 1981 aged 14 years R.I.P. This stone was erected by young people of Leicester, England

      "Killed by a plastic bullet" doesn't say by who though. Who tf are the young people of Leicester?

    5. ro British agents murdered 5 unarmed civilians and injured over 63 peo

      COLLUSION -> draw direct link between Loyal and Security forces. Evidences Hume's assertions that it was a one-way street, and that collusion was a big issue at time

    6. ) Also in memory of the civilians who died at the hands of the British Army R.U.C. U.D.R. and Loyalist extremists". On the left from the entrance - white stone plaq

      repub mural name drops Loyalism and security forces

    1. From 1908, they served as the headquarters of South Belfast UVF. The stones of the crest above the front entrance were retained when the Brewery was demolished and incorporated in the entrance to the local Community Centre as a memorial to the Volunteers who lost their lives in the Great War. They are thought to be the last surviving artifacts from the UVF's initial mobilisation in Belfast in 1912.

      HEFTY links to old UVF damn

    2. Sean Graham Bookmaker's Shooting

      Whoops: Slightly less sectarian, liek Mcgurk's in that doesn't point fingers, but also says murdered for faith. Give background on attack maybe and show it was? Also doesn't mention Cath, might be general call to end sectarian violence - does mention "the community" more broadly tho, so could be talking about internalized segregation or whatever

      Lack of republican lilies/flowers in garden

    1. ot to know you son after the years we've been apart Now there's a hole that can't be mended And it is deep within my heart Sadly missed by your loving father Ronnie

      Inclusion of personal testimonies to appeal to pathos?

    2. pla

      Significant Phoenix imagery mixed w/ catholicism -> could be used as evidence that IRA mems usually contained ADIITIONAL imagery to just Cath crosses and such

    3. c

      This one is vague -> just "an atrocity" but doesn't label it loyalist or anything (guessing that's what this was) Catholicism here too, but more neutral maybe?

    4. This plaque is dedicated to the memory of all those from Ligoniel who lost their lives as a result of the conflict in our country

      again pretty neutral wording here, but loved Ireland quote implies sacrifice for nation?

      posters of Bobby Sands -> why link HS's to here?

    1. faithful replica of a brass plaque which was unveiled in the Unionist Club in 1921

      furthers associations. OVERALL -> very entrenched Unionist area. Shows increased/continued sectarianism (place geographically?)

    2. who lost their lives in 1914-18 and those members of East Belfast UVF who died during the more recent conflict.

      ALSO LINKS PAST REMEMBERANCE OF WW1 TO NOW LIKE IN MURALS

    3. UVF,

      This one says specifically AGAINST republicanism (defines as militant) so tehrefore more military role. Architecturally similar to that one that says "murdered/killed" but message different - timing contextualizes this? This one is before GFA -> maybe pivoted to Decommissioning after?

    4. "East Belfast Brigade Roll of Honour (list stating name and date of death f

      Shows military nature again. gates common feature for all of these - reason?

    5. DA,

      Military imagery for legitimacy, British flag

      Murdered and killed -> suggests defensive role? contradicttion? Maybe tie into IRA Decommissioning as main threat as opposed to "defending" from south?

    6. St. Matthew's Chapel

      Mural text overall is very non-specific "this conflict" "all victims" etc. NOT a republican mural, could be church attempt at memorializing community but focusing on victims of violence instead of perpetrators. Curiously, Repub symbols tho. What gives?

    1. Protestants in 2004—5 have described unforgettably the emotional intensity of storytelling, in this case concerning harrowing experiences of IRA attacks. Listening to the story of one man, shot seven times with an Armalite automatic rifle in his home, and now partially paralyzed, they were confronted by two local women who asked, “Are you going to tell the truth? Do you know that this is a story of innocent victims murdered by butchers?”®

      Barbed Port example 2?

    2. most compelling argument in favor of a truth recovery process is the palpable need of the bereaved to find out what happened to their relatives.

      Truth process WOULD help relatives heal despite misgivings and political angles

    3. n the absence of state-driven projects, the memorialization of the dead has proceeded in the partisan and piecemeal manner described ear- lier.

      KEY POINT -> ABSENCE OF STATE COMM MEANS COMMUNITY COMM MORE FREQUENT/SECTARIAN

    4. Northern Ireland Memorial Building

      Wants this kind of memorial - kinda like Kollwitz statue in Berlin for all "20th century" victims - who would it include?

    5. he political context for the report was the anger caused by the phased release of para- military prisoners envisaged in the Good Friday Agreement, hence per- haps Bloomfield’s conclusion that “victims must, at barest minimum, be as well served as former prisoners in terms of their rehabilitation, future employment, etc,”

      Bloomfield report provoked by release of political prisoners.

    6. Instead, Protestant alienation was overwhelm- ingly focused on the early release of paramilitary prisoners, the reform of the RUC, and the refusal of the IRA to decommission its weapons.

      Just as IRA justified violence increasingly less based on political goals because of unrealism, Unionism arguments shift to decommissioning instead of threats of Irish invasion

    7. In 1998, for the first time, the vast majority of Irish people, North and South, effectively recognized the partition of Ireland, albeit in a new, pluralist form.

      GFA basically sees all parties recognize the partition finally

    8. devolved structures created in 1998 constitute a repudiation of the simple majority-rule model of government which had been discred- ited under the old Stormont regime. By institutionalizing cross-commu- nity consensus as the basis of decision making, however, the agreement also inadvertently institutionalized the communal division deplored by so many of the individuals and groups who actively tried to make North- ern Ireland a more equal, tolerant, and peaceful society.4

      So GFA actually leads to entrenched sectarianism because of cross-community consent being required. Sides dig in

    9. creas- ingly, therefore, mainstream republicans justify their long war by refer- ence to the brutality of the British Army and the complicity of British intelligence agencies in loyalist assassinations,

      Hopeless IRA political goals - began to justify conflict BECAUSE OF BRUTALITY AND COLLUSION

      Pay attention to LANGUAGE of murals here

    10. The British State forces acted with impunity. 2. There was collusion between the British State agencies and Unionist paramilitaries. This was structured and institutional, 3. The British Government was an armed, ans active participant in the conflict.

      Regional view that Brits were bad -> backed up by stats? Nope!

      North Belfast

    11. tholic minority (roughly one-third of the population in 1969, ris- » ing.to roughly two-fifths by 1998) accounted fora majority of all those * civilians killed. (

      Terrorist image despite this stat

    12. South African experience where instead of a majority being denied their rights and democratic expression by a minority we saw the opposite.

      Prots saying like SA but where majority terrorized

    13. discomfits both unionists and republicans. Most notably, the examination of those killed reveals that republican paramilitaries have been responsible for more Catholic deaths than the British Army and the local security forces combined

      yikes. How do repubs present cath civ deaths? Any "internal" memorials?

    14. the IRA should have been resurrected in the streets running between thé Shankill and the Falls Road should not surprise

      IRA present in Shankhill and Falls no surprise because of strong segregated repub tradition (think about LOCATION of memorials)

    15. ombination of voter polarization and the relative stability of power-sharing has created a situation where cul- tural validation—and perhaps even the past itself—becomes a resource to be sliced up and allocated like social services, schools, broadcasting funds, or housing.

      AHA -> MORE POLITICS

      • Cultural validation as political resource like education that needs to be carved up . Voter polarization/stability of power sharing
    16. flags, murals, and painted curbstones, memorials to the vic- tims of the Northern Ireland conflict have become boundary markers in a society where communal segregation has increased rather than di- minished since the ceasefires. T

      Segregation has INCRESED since ceasefire -> memorials as sectarian boundaries like murals

    17. moderates within the nationalist bloc; but the offense caused to union- ists is always much deeper, and ultimately the inevitable unionist reac- tion will reproduce the basic communal fault line which sustains the Sinn Féin voté:l

      EVEN MORE KEY REASON: Whil commemorating para violence does disuade moderates from cause, it PROVOKES UNIONISTS into reacting against repubs/caths, thereby sustaining loyal base and SF vote

    18. inn Féin has compromised its founding principles for electoral gain, maintaining the illusion of ideological fundamentalism through the energy it devotes to memorialization, thus safeguarding its core constituency from more ‘vadieal alternatives.

      REASON SF DOES THIS POLITICALLY -> ENSHRINES IDEAOLOGICAL COMMITMENTS DESPITE THEM GOING BACK ON SOME (Participating in elections)

    19. embers killed on Gibraltar in 1988."' This closer identification with physical-force resistance to British rule takes us a long way from the famous image of Fr. Edward Daly waving his white handkerchiefas he helped move the dying Jackie Dudd

      KEY: Repubs co opt victim hood and actions against state. Memorialize both Gibralter/aggressive actions AND peaceful actors like here -> both of which are portrayed as state violence?

    20. uccessfully internationalizin

      Bloody Sunday campain was internationalized by IRA -> SA, etc. Showed ability to be fluid and take on many identieied / masks with commemoration for republicans