Breaking the Peace
After the UK voted to leave Europe, Northern Ireland’s fragile relationship with both its past and its neighbour is once again to the fore.
The imperfect but generally stable peace process in Northern Ireland has trundled on since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 and Islamic fundamentalism and right-wing extremism are now usually regarded as more serious threats to British security than Irish republicanism. It has thus been quite easy over the past few years to forget just how devastating the conflict we still euphemistically refer to as ‘the Troubles’ actually was. In strictly military terms, the war in Northern Ireland could accurately be regarded as a low-intensity conflict, yet between 1969 and the Provisional IRA ceasefire of 1994, over 3,500 people lost their lives as a direct result of violence in Northern Ireland or emanating from the region.
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Research Guides
BPL Genealogy Research Guide- Includes links to more resources and information about Ireland and researching Irish ancestry
Births, marriages and deaths in Scotland and Ireland- From the National Archives of the United Kingdom, this resource includes information about how to locate records in the United Kingdom
Discover your Irish Ancestry- From the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS), this resource includes links to NEHGS records, guides, books, and articles about Irish history
Ireland Genealogy- From FamilySearch.org, this resource includes geographical information and links to tutorials
Irish Genealogy (Irish Studies)- From Boston College s Irish Studies department, this guide includes information about resources at Boston College and links to other online resources
Professor, Westminster Theological Seminary
ABSTRACT: The theologians gathered in 1643 for the Westminster Assembly did not intend to write a new confession of faith. But due to war, politics, and the internal workings of the assembly, those gathered eventually produced a document, divided into 33 chapters, that joined the classical doctrines of the Christian faith with the full harvest of Reformed theology. The Westminster Confession of Faith would soon become the most famous and influential confession produced in the English language. Today, its doctrines still shape churches throughout the English-speaking world and beyond, setting before Godâs people truths worth studying, praying, and singing.