Kimberly Cowell-Meyers
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Assistant Professor, Department of Government, American University, Washington, D.C. Author of Religion and Politics in the Nineteenth Century: The Party Faithful in Ireland and Germany.
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Gerry Adams is the former president of Sinn Féin, long regarded as the political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), and one of the chief architects of Sinn Féin’s shift to a policy of seeking a peaceful settlement to sectarian violence in Northern Ireland. He was elected several times to the…
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Publications (1)
Religion and Politics in the Nineteenth-Century: The Party Faithful in Ireland and Germany (June 2002)
Cowell-Meyers examines the continued sectarian conflict on the island of Ireland from a comparative and historical framework. Analyzing the process through which sectarian conflict was managed on the continent, she identifies the unique evolution of the Irish situation. Whereas European Catholics, such as those in the new Germany, developed an institutional pillar to defend themselves and protect their interests in the modern plural state, Irish Catholics developed a radical nationalist movement...
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