Tolerance and diversity in Ireland, North and South
Tolerance and diversity in Ireland, North and South
EDITED BY ISEULT HONOHAN AND NATHALIE ROUGIER
Manchester University Press
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Contents
Introduction
Iseult Honohan and Nathalie Rougier
1 When you actually talk to them recognising and respecting cultural and religious diversity in Irish schools
Merike Darmody and Emer Smyth
2 Recognising difference while promoting cohesion: the role of collaborative networks in education
Tony Gallagher and Gavin Duffy
3 Tolerance, recognition and educational patronage: Irelands constitutional politics of school choice
Eoin Daly
4 Traveller education: policy and practice in Northern Ireland
Jennifer Hamilton, Fiona Bloomer and Michael Potter
5 Tolerance of religious and cultural diversity in Irish institutions: comparing hijabs in schools and turbans in the Garda reserve
Nathalie Rougier and Iseult Honohan
6 Minority and majority community integration in Northern Ireland: a matrix of tolerance
Ruth McAreavey
7 Politics, professions and participation: immigrants in the Irish public sphere
Neil OBoyle
8 Academic truth and the perpetuation of negative attitudes and intolerance towards Irish Travellers in contemporary Ireland
na Crowley and Rob Kitchin
9 Two wrongs dont make a right: (in)tolerance and hate crime laws in Northern Ireland
Chris Gilligan
10 Prejudice and (in)tolerance in Ulster
Neil Jarman
11 Acknowledging religious and cultural diversity in an antagonistic society: the challenge of Northern Ireland
Duncan Morrow
12 Taking intolerant liberalism seriously
Bryan Fanning
13 Toleration, respect and recognition in Northern Ireland
Cillian McBride
Conclusion
Iseult Honohan and Nathalie Rougier
Figures and tables
Figures
Tables
Notes on the contributors
Fiona Bloomer is Research Associate with the Institute for Research in Social Sciences, University of Ulster. Fiona specialises in research in social policy with a focus on issues related to sectarianism and community relations in Northern Ireland. More recently she has conducted research on the activities of pro-choice groups campaigning for reform of the abortion legislation in Northern Ireland. Her experience draws from five years as research director at Trademark and ten years in Northern Ireland Research and Statistics Agency, where she was seconded to the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister, and the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure.
na Crowley is Director of Teaching and Learning and Head of Academic Advisory in NUI Maynooth. na has responsibility for the day-to-day functioning of both the Academic Advisory Office and the Centre for Teaching and Learning, the development of initiatives in the University, and for overseeing strategic teaching and learning projects funded under the National Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF1 & 2). Her teaching and research areas include equality issues in education, undergraduate retention and completion, inclusion and interculturalism and the social, cultural and political history of twentieth-century Ireland.
Eoin Daly is Lecturer in the School of Law at NUI Galway, where he teaches Constitutional Law, Legal Theory, and Law and Religion. His research focuses on the relationship between constitutional law and political theory, with a particular focus on constitutional secularism and legal issues surrounding religion in schools. He is author of Religion, Law and the Irish State: The Constitutional Framework in Context (Clarus, 2012). He has also published papers in Legal Studies, the European Journal of Political Theory, Jurisprudence and the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies.
Merike Darmody is Research Officer at the Economic and Social Research Institute and adjunct Assistant Professor in Sociology at Trinity College Dublin. Her key area of interest lies in sociology of education. Recent work includes studies on ethnic, cultural and religious diversity in Irish primary and secondary schools. She has co-edited a book on the experiences of migrant children in Ireland, The Changing Faces of Ireland: Exploring the Lives of Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Children, and co-authored articles and chapters on this topic. She has recently been a national expert in a European Commission-funded international comparative study on the educational needs of newly arrived migrant children.
Gavin D. Duffy is Research Fellow attached to the Sharing Education Programme in the School of Education at Queens University Belfast; BA (Hons) Sociology and Scholastic Philosophy, MSSc Criminology and Criminal Justice and PGCE in Secondary Education. His doctoral research involved an ethnographic study of a custodial education centre for young people. He has published on themes such as rehabilitation and educational disengagement. His current research seeks to understand more about the context of effective collaboration within networks of schools and examines institutional relationships forming between schools from different sectors, in particular those operating in contested space settings.
Bryan Fanning is Head of the School of Applied Social Science at University College Dublin. He is the author of Racism and Social Change in the Republic of Ireland (Manchester University Press, 2001, 2nd edition 2012), Immigration and Social Cohesion in the Republic of Ireland (Manchester University Press, 2011), The Quest for Modern Ireland: The Battle of Ideas 19121986 (Irish Academic Press, 2008) and New Guests of the Irish Nation (Irish Academic Press, 2009). Other recent publications include An Irish Century: Studies 19122012 (UCD Press, 2012).
Tony Gallagher is Professor of Education and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Queens University Belfast. His main research interest lies in the role of education in societies marked by ethnic conflict, although he is also interested more generally in issues related to equality and social inclusion in education. He has worked in Northern Ireland, South East Europe and the Middle East, with Israeli and Palestinian educators, and acted as a consultant for government departments, public bodies, voluntary and community organisations and international organisations. His current main work explores effective methods of school collaboration to raise standards and promote new relationships across denominational divisions in Northern Ireland (www.schoolsworkingtogether.co.uk).