Brian Barton Livres

The narrative explores Belfast's significant yet vulnerable role during World War II, highlighting its crucial contributions to the war effort through shipbuilding and armament production. As the city became increasingly important, it faced the looming threat of Luftwaffe attacks, ultimately leading to catastrophic bombings on Easter Tuesday night in 1941. The sudden and intense assaults not only caused widespread destruction but also severely impacted civilian morale, marking a pivotal moment in the city’s wartime experience.

Barton and Roche have drawn on the expertise of scholars in Irish history, political philosophy, sociology, demography and criminal and constitutional law to provide a major contribution to understanding the dynamics of the terrorist conflict that engulfed Northern Ireland for thirty years. The legal dimension of the book provides accessible understanding both of the use of the criminal law in response to terrorism and of the constitutional status of Northern Ireland prior to the 1998 Belfast Agreement. The Northern Ireland Question: Myth and Reality explicates the civic character of unionism which differentiates unionism as a form of political identity from the ethnicity of traditional Irish nationalism. The contributions explore the ambiguities of southern Irish politics with respect to 'the Northern Ireland question' and challenge a conventional and widely accepted understanding (inimical to unionism and unionists) of the genesis of the terrorist conflict in Northern Ireland and the extent of discrimination under the Stormont administration but without loss of objectivity and professional detachment.

Zwischen Fiktion und Faktografie. Die ästhetische Dimension des Dokumentarismus stellt Brain Barton am Beispiel der drei repräsentativen Dokumentar-Autoren Hochhuth, Kipphardt und Peter Weiss dar. Dabei liefert er einen materialreichen Abriss über die Geschichte des Dokumentartheaters von der Weimarer Republik bis zur Gegenwart.