Children - List of Source Material

List of Source Material

Books and Chapters:

Aretxaga, Begona, "Striking with Hunger: Cultural meanings of Political Violence in Northern Ireland", in Kay B.Warren, ed., The violence within: cultural and political opposition in divided nations (Boulder: Westview Press, 1993). pp. 219-254.

Aretxaga, Begona, Shattering Silence: women nationalism and political subjectivity in Northern Ireland (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997).

Cairns, E., ‘The Development of Ethnic Discrimination in Young Children in Northern Ireland’, in J. Harbison and J. Harbison (eds.), Children and Young People in Northern Ireland: A Society Under Stress, Somerset, Open Books, 1980.

Cairns, Ed, Caught in Crossfire: Children and the Northern Ireland Conflict (Belfast: Appletree Press, 1987).

Cairns, Ed, Children and political violence (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996).

Cairns, E., ‘The Political Socialisation of Tomorrow’s Parents: Violence, Politics and the Media’, in Harbison, J. (ed.), Children of the Troubles: Children in Northern Ireland, Belfast, Stranmillis College Learning Resources Unit, 1983c.

Cairns, Ed and Tara Cairns, "Children and Conflict: a Psychological Perspective", in Seamus Dunn ed., Facets of the Conflict in Northern Ireland (Houndmills: Macmillan Press, 1995), pp. 97-113.

Caul, Leslie, Schools under scrutiny: the case of Northern Ireland (London: Macmillan, 1993).

Connolly, Paul., Early Years Anti-Sectarian Television (Belfast: Community Relations Council, 1998).
[See also Executive Summary]

Connolly, Paul. and Maginn, P. Children, Sectarianism and Community Relations in Northern Ireland. Centre for the Study of Conflict, University of Ulster, 109pp, 1999.

Daly, Bridget and Jenny Vaughan, Children at war, (London: Macdonald, 1988) Children’s text.

Darby J. and Dunn S., "Segregated Schools: The Research Evidence", in R D.. Osbourne, R. J. Cormack, and R. L. Miller, eds., Education and Policy in Northern Ireland (Belfast: Policy Research Institute, 1987).

Darby, J., Conflict in Northern Ireland: The development of a Polarised Community, (Gill and Macmillan: Dublin, 1976).

Darby, John, 'Conflict in Northern Ireland: A background Essay', in Seamus Dunn ed., Facets of the Conflict in Northern Ireland (Houndmills: Macmillan Press, 1995), pp. 15-26.

Dominic, Bryan and Neil Jarman, "Parading tradition, protesting triumphalism: utilising anthropology in public policy", in Donnan Hastings and Graham McFarlane eds. Social Anthropology and Public Policy in Northern Ireland (Aldershot, Hants: Avebury, 1997).

Dunn, S., Darby, J. and Mullan, K., Schools Together? (Coleraine: Centre for the Study of Conflict, 1984).

Edgerton, Lynda, "Public Protest, Domestic Acquiescence: Women in Northern Ireland", in Rosemary Ridd and Helen Callaway eds., Caught up in conflict, women’s responses to Political Strife (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1986), pp. 61-79.

Faul, Denis (Fr.) and Murray, Raymond (Fr.), Majella O'Hare Shot Dead by the British Army 14 August 1976 (Published by the authors, 1976)

Feldman, Allen, Formations of Violence: The narrative of the Body and Political terror in Northern Ireland (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991).

Fields, Rona M., A society on the run: A psychology of Northern Ireland (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973).

Fitzpatrick, David, The Two Irelands (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988).

Fraser, Morris, Children in Conflict, (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973).

Gallagher, A.M. Majority Minority Review 1: Education in a Divided Society University of Ulster, Coleraine 1995, second edition.

Hewitt, James, Flashpoints in the Irish Question (Wayland: East Sussex, 1986). Children’s text

Hewstone, Miles and Robert Brown, "Contact is not enough", in Contact and Conflict in Intergroup Encounters (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986).

Jarman, Neil, Material Conflict: Parades and Visual displays in Northern Ireland (Oxford: Bergman, 1997).

Morgan, Valerie and Grace Fraser, "Women and the Northern Ireland Conflict: Experiences and Responses", in Dunn, Seamus, ed., Facets of the Conflict in Northern Ireland (Houndmills: Macmillan Press, 1995), pp. 81-26.

Murray, Dominic, The chance of a lifetime: an evaluation of project children (Centre for the Study of Conflict: University of Ulster, 1993 ).

McVeigh, Robbie. "It's Part of Life Here...." The Security Forces and Harassment in Northern Ireland based on a survey of young people. (Belfast: Committee on the Administration of Justice, 1994).

Sales, Rosemary, Women divided, gender, religion and politics in Northern Ireland (London: Routledge, 1997).

Trew, Karen, "Evaluating the Impact of contact schemes for Catholic and Protestant children" in Harbison, J. I., ed., Growing Up in Northern Ireland (Belfast: Stranmillis College, 1989).

Reports by the Cost of the Troubles Study

[na] (1999, April) The Cost of the Troubles Study. Final Report Belfast: The Cost of the Troubles Study. Paperback 72pp

Marie Therese Fay, Mike Morrissey, Marie Smyth and Tracy Wong (1999, April) The Cost of the Troubles Study. Report on the Northern Ireland Survey: the experience and impact of the Troubles Derry Londonderry: INCORE. ISBN 0-9533305-5-9 Paperback 161pp £5.00

Marie Therese Fay, Mike Morrissey and Marie Smyth (1999). Northern Ireland's Troubles: The Human Costs, London: Pluto Press. [ISBN 0 7453 1374 4 Paperback 229pp £12.99]

Marie Therese Fay, Mike Morrissey and Marie Smyth (1998). Mapping Troubles-Related Deaths in Northern Ireland 1969-1998 Derry Londonderry: INCORE. Paperback, £5.00
[Previous edition: Marie Therese Fay, Mike Morrissey and Marie Smyth (1997). Mapping Troubles-Related Deaths in Northern Ireland 1969-1994 Derry Londonderry: INCORE. ISBN 1 85923 088 1 Paperback 80pp £3.50 OUT OF PRINT see also: selected tables from this publication]

Half the Battle: Understanding the Effects of The Troubles on Children and Young People in Northern Ireland by Marie Smyth (1998). Derry Londonderry: INCORE. ISBN 0 9533305 2 4 Paperback 174pp £5.00

Do You See What I See? Young people's experience of the Troubles in their own words and photographs by the children and young people of: Sunningdale Youth Group; Survivors of Trauma, North Belfast; Woodvale Youth Group; Young people from The Alexander Park project in Belfast; Peace and Reconciliation Group, Derry Londonderry; with assistance from Joy Dyer (1998). Derry Londonderry: INCORE. ISBN 0 95333 05 1 6 Paperback 121pp £10.00 commercial sales; £5.00 and £2.50 unwaged and under 18s

Submission by Marie Smyth to the Northern Ireland Commission on Victims.

Second submission by Marie Smyth to the Northern Ireland Commission on Victims; 'Residual matters relating to victims of the Troubles in the light of the Agreement document'.

Third submission by Marie Smyth to the Northern Ireland Commission on Victims; 'Response to the Bloomfield Report' - produced after consultation with and public meetings of Northern Ireland's victims' groups.

Other Reports

McAlister, Siobhán., Scration, Phil., and Haydon, Deena. (2009). Childhood in Transition: Experiencing Marginalisation and Conflict in Northern Ireland, (November 2009), [PDF; 3172KB]. Belfast: Childhood, Transition and Social Justice Initiative, Queen's University.
See also: associated flyer.

Journal articles:

Cairns, E., ‘Television news as a source of knowledge about the violence for children in Ireland: a test of the knowledge-gap hypothesis’, Current Psychological Research and Reviews, 1984, Winter, 32-8.

Cairns, E. and Duriez, B., ‘The influence of speaker’s accent on recall by Catholic and Protestant school children in Northern Ireland’, British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 1976,15,441-2.

Cairns, E., Hunter, D. and Herring, L., ‘Young children’s awareness of violence in Northern Ireland: The influence of Northern Irish television in Scotland and Northern Ireland’, British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 1980, 19, 3-6.

Cairns, E. and Mercer, G. W., ‘Social Identity in Northern Ireland’, Human Relations, 1984, 37, 12, 1095-1102.

Cairns, E. and Wilson, R., ‘The impact of political violence on mild psychiatric morbidity in Northern Ireland’, British Journal of Psychiatry, 1984, 145, 631-5.

Coles, Robert. 'Ulster's Children: Waiting for the Prince of Peace', The Atlantic Monthly, December 1980, "Ulster's Children", 246, 6, 33-44. {external_link}

Dunn, Seamus, "The role of education in the Northern Ireland conflict", Oxford Review of Education, Vol. 12, no. 3. 1986. pp. 233-242.

Irwin, Colin, "Social Conflict and the failure of education policies in two deeply divided.,societies: Northern Ireland and Israel", Irish Educational Studies Vol. 3., no. 2 . 1983, pp. 90-109.

Magee, J, "The teaching of Irish History in Irish schools", The Northern Teacher, Vol. 10, no.1, 1970.

McEvoy, Siobhan, Communities and Peace: Catholic Youth in Northern Ireland", Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 37, no. 1, 2000, pp. 85-103.

McLoughlin, Eithne, "Women and the family in Northern Ireland: a review," Women’s Studies International Forum , Vol. 1, no. 4, 1992, pp. 475-491.

Murray, Dominic, "Identity: a covert pedagody in Northern Irish schools", Irish Educational Studies, Vol. 5, no 2, 1985, pp. 182-197.

Murray, Dominic, "Rituals and symbols as contributors to the culture of Northern Ireland primary schools", Irish Educational Studies Vol. 3., no. 2 . 1983, pp. 171-191.

O’ Canainn, Seamus, "The education inquiry 1824-1826 in its social and political context", Irish Education Studies, Vol 3 no. 2, 1983.

Mullin, John, "Loyalists target Catholic families", The Guardian, 13 July 1993, p. 3.

O’ Connor, Fionnula, "Tonight’s the Night", The Independent on Sunday, 11 July 1999, p. 13.

McDonald, Henry "Terrorists recruit teenage soldiers" The Guardian, 24^th October 1999

Ingle, Roisin, 'Paramilitary lure endures in Shankill’s deprivation', The Irish Times, August 26^th 2000

Photographs

Series of 51 photographs of children and the conflict.
Part of a larger collection taken in Derry between 1968 and 1974 by Eamon Melaugh

Web Sites

CAIN site - The main items on children in Northern Ireland have been highlighted in these pages but users should check the remainder of the site for additional information (follow the advice on finding information on topics).

See the associated website of The Cost of the Troubles Study for details, and extracts, from relevant publications

See the associated website of the Centre for the Study of Conflict for details, and extracts, from relevant publications

Northern Ireland Life and Times and Young Life and Times {external_link}

INCORE - Guide to Internet sources on Children and Conflict {external_link} - mainly covers information on countries other than Northern Ireland.

Children for Peace {external_link} campaign - established by the Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Trust.

United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. Report by Ireland {external_link} (17 June 1996)

Other Sources:

United Nations Press Release, 30 June 2000. Otunnu calls for body to promote children’s rights in Northern Ireland.

Education and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland, Alan Smith, (School of Education, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland) Paper presented to the Annual Conference of the American Education Research Association, Montreal, April 1999.