The Observer index, January-December 2001 ... - Microform

transition to its new home - television? - see Television
02/12/01
* Rachel Cooke meets her first love from school through the
website friendsreunited.co.uk - see Social Conditions & Trends
02/12/01 R 2 1>5 Photograph
INVENTING HERSELF
* See Book Reviews - Gerrard, Nicci 01/07/01
INVENTING THE VICTORIANS
* See Book Reviews - Jays, David 02/12/01
IN-YER-FACE: BRITISH DRAMA TODAY
* See Book Reviews - Brown, Stephen 06/05/01
IRELAND/NORTHERN IRELAND
* Ronan Bennet's TV series Rebel Heart begins amid a blizzard
of emotive controversy - Robert Kee asks how historically
accurate any drama about Ireland can be - see Television
07/01/01
* Jeffrey Donaldson, the Ulster Unionist MP opposed to the
Good Friday Agreement, has accused the government of bugging
his home and spying on his political allies 04/02/01 B 3 1>4
Photograph
* Dissident Marion Price says 'armed struggle's is likely to go on
04/02/01 B 7 1>2 Photographs
* Ireland has been transformed by its soaring economy, but there
are fears that the 'friendly country' could be losing its soul in the
process 18/02/01 B 16>17 1>8 Photographs
* Top IRA diehards threaten to defect to the Real IRA if a single
gun is surrendered 04/03/01 B 4 1>8 Photographs
* Provos scout terror targets in England 11/03/01 B 6 1>8
Photograph
* Sean O'Hagan has put together a show that unites politics and
culture in Ireland - including an AK47 that's good enough to eat
18/03/01 R 5 1>5 Photographs
* Legal fund shortfall means Real IRA bombing suspects may
escape a trial 25/03/01 B 12 1>6 Photographs
* Senior barristers demand more cash for work on Derry inquiry
as bill soars towards £100m 08/04/01 B 4 1>7 Photographs
* Anger at amnesty for IRA fugitives 15/04/01 B 9 8
* A key IRA informer, in hiding for nearly 20 years, will risk his
life to tell the Bloody Sunday inquiry that former IRA
commander Martin McGuinness did not fire any shorts on the
fateful day 06/05/01 B 9 3>8 Photographs
* An Australian tourist had an ear cut off and two others were
severely beaten by a sectarian mob in Belfast who thought they
were Protestants 13/05/01 B 8 7>8 Photograph
* Good Friday anger may undo David Trimble 20/05/01 B 20
1>8 Photograph
* David Trimble, Northern Ireland's First Minister, vowed last
night to fight for the survival of the Good Friday Agreement
despite the pounding his Ulster Unionist Party suffered in the
election 10/06/01 B 2 6>7
* David Trimble was re-elected leader of the Ulster Unionist
Party yesterday as pressure mounted on republicans to break the
deadlock over the decommissioning of paramilitary weapons
24/06/01 B 2 4>7 Photograph
* David Trimble quits as Northern Ireland's First Minister and
calls on Tony Blair to suspend the Assembly 01/07/01 B 2 2>6
Photographs
* Terror groups recruit and rearm 01/07/01 B 2 7
* Blunt warning for Ulster leaders as peace talks collapse
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15/07/01 B 2 3>8
* Two Irish billionaire gamblers have bought a stake in
Manchester Utd, now the club fears a full-scale bid - see Sport:
Football 22/07/01
* The Republic of Ireland's new rich have been flaunting their
fortunes in style 22/07/01 B 16 1>6 Photographs
* David Trimble, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party has
predicted that the Good Friday Agreement will have to be
substantially renegotiated 29/07/01 B 2 6>7
* Two Real IRA terrorist cells are operating in London and are
intent on launching further attacks in the wake of last week's
Ealing bombing 05/08/01 B 1>2 7>8
* Security services in Britain and Ireland have identified the new
leader of the Real IRA, the militia group intent on wrecking the
peace process 05/08/01 B 8>9 1>8 Photographs
* The Ealing bomb was a sophisticated visual 'spectacular'
deliberately planted to be caught on CCTV for maximum
publicity by the Real IRA 12/08/01 B 2 2>4
* Sins of decommission by Geoffrey Wheatcroft 12/08/01 B 25
1>5 Photograph
* Paddy Hill, one of the Birmingham Six wrongly convicted of
the 1974 IRA pub bombing, has rejected a compensation offer of
less than £1m for the 16 years spent in jail - see Hill, Paddy
19/08/01
* Dramatic new allegations about the scale of the Provisional
IRA's illegal foreign fundraising efforts has emerged 19/08/01 B
1>2 4>6
* Teaching terror to Marxist guerrillas in Colombia seemed a
nice earner for the Provos, but the fiasco may cost Sinn Fein
hard-won US support 19/08/01 B 12>14 1>8 Photographs
* Immigrants' dreams of a bright future in booming Ireland are
souring amid rising levels of racist violence and intimidation
19/08/01 B 9 1>6 Photographs
* Right-wing prisoners are plotting to execute the three Irishmen
accused of teaching terrorist skills to Marxist rebels in
Colombia, according to sources inside the jail where they are
being held 26/08/01 B 8 1>7 Photographs
* Unionists threaten to walk out on Stormont 23/09/01 B 2 1>7
* Belfast in the 21st century is more bigoted and divided than it
was before the terrorist ceasefires seven years ago 23/09/01 B 4
1>6
* A Protestant who escaped the clutches of nationalists in north
Belfast tells about his ordeal 30/09/01 B 11 1>8 Photographs
* A decade after loyalist leader Billy Wright put a price on
journalist Martin O'Hagan's head, hitmen struck 30/09/01 B 6
1>7 Photographs
* Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein's chief negotiator in the
Northern Ireland peace process, has been appointed chief of staff
of the IRA 07/10/01 B 1 7>8 Photograph
* The Gaelic Athletic Association has been the bedrock of rural
Irish life, but now its members are in uproar over adverts for
Ireland's first gay magazine 21/10/01 B 8 1>7 Photographs
* Disarming Ulster: How the IRA gave in to US arms pressure
28/10/01 B 10>11 1>8 Photographs
* With a final shove from the US, Sinn Fein brought Northern
Irish politics into the sunlight, but asks Alan Ruddock, can
Unionists play ball? 28/10/01 B 31 1>5 Photographs
* Northern Ireland's faltering political process was back on track
after the Alliance Party voted to change the designation of its
Assembly members to Unionist, allowing David Trimble's reelection
04/11/01 B 3 1>4 Photographs