This repository contains archive file information, coding ontologies, and qualitative methods descriptions for qualitative data on discussions by British Cabinet members about Loyalist, pro-government militias during the first years of the Troubles in Northern Ireland (1969-1973). This work was supported by the National Science Foundation Grant #1823547, ``Civil Rights Violations and the Democratic Rule of Law'' (Emily Gade, PI; Michael McCann, co-PI; Noah Smith, co-PI), the University of Washington Curtis Graduate Research Grant, and the Halle Institute for Global Research Award. All archive material are from The National Archives (UK).
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Analyzing Archived Government Correspondence Files (1969-73): Pro-Government Militias in Northern Ireland
Jun 6, 2025
Weller, Adee; Dreier, Sarah; Gade, Emily, 2025, "Analyzing Archived Government Correspondence Files (1969-73): Pro-Government Militias in Northern Ireland", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/P5YPXG, Harvard Dataverse, V1
This project compiles and analyzes over 8,000 pages of declassified British government documents from 1969 to 1973 to investigate how the UK state understood and responded to pro-government militias (PGMs) during the Northern Ireland conflict. The data include two original coded datasets: (1) an incident-level event dataset capturing PGM, state, an...
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