Northern Ireland after the Good Friday Agreement

Lesley Lelourec is Senior Lecturer at the University of Rennes 2, France. Her research focuses on British attitudes to Ireland, Northern Ireland and the Troubles, and on Anglo-Irish relations in general. She has co-edited a collection in the Reimagining Ireland Series, entitled Ireland and Victims: Confronting the Past, Forging the Future, 2012, with Gráinne O’Keeffe-Vigneron. Her most recent research comprises a study of the impacts of the 1993 IRA Warrington bombings on the peace process.Gráinne O’Keeffe-Vigneron is Senior Lecturer at the University of Rennes 2, France. She is currently working on the Irish diaspora in France and is co-directing, «Les diasporas irlandaises: enjeux économiques, migrations, integration» as part of a national research project in Irish studies in France (Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique (G.I.S EIRE)) and has recently completed a report on the Irish in France for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Dublin.

• CONTENTS: Lesley Lelourec/Gráinne O’Keeffe-Vigneron: Politics and the People: Shaping and Sharing the Future in Northern Ireland – John Brewer: Dealing with the Past and Envisioning the Future: Some Problems with Northern Ireland’s Peace Process – Timothy White: Power-Sharing and Political Stability: Creating and Sustaining a Shared Future in Northern Ireland – Stephen Hopkins: The Memoir-Writing of Former Paramilitary Prisoners in Northern Ireland: A Politics of Reconciliation? – Jim McAuley: Loyalist Collective Memory, Perspectives of the Somme and Divided History – Aaron Edwards: The Ulster Volunteer Force and Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland – Philippe Cauvet: Postnationalism, Moderate Nationalism and a Shared Northern Ireland: The Case of the SDLP – Eva Urban: Shared Futures or a Rerun of the 1930s? Community, Trauma and Reification in the People of Gallagher Street and Planet Belfast – David Clark: «A Bright Shiny Police Force Acceptable to All»: Representing the PSNI in Irish Crime Fiction – Katie Markham: Toy Guns and Miniatures: The Kitschification of Conflict in the Paramilitary Museum – Laurence McKeown: Aftermath – the Role of the Arts in Dealing with the Legacy of Conflict.

«This is a wonderful, genuinely interdisciplinary and thoughtful volume, reliant upon evidence, not mere assertion. The pleasure in reading lies in its breadth and the capacity of well-informed and astute contributors to challenge lazy orthodoxies, whilst not being controversial merely for the sake of controversy. This is a book which ought to be read by anyone with an interest in Northern Ireland’s past, present and future.»(Professor Jonathan Tonge, University of Liverpool)