Northern Ireland

Olivier Coquelin is Senior Lecturer in British and Irish Studies at the University of Caen Normandy where he is a member of the research group in Irish studies (GREI – ERIBIA). His research work focuses on the history and ideology of Irish political and social movements in the period eighteenth to twentieth century.Brigitte Bastiat holds a PhD in Media and Communication Studies (University of Paris 8). She teaches English at La Rochelle University, is a member of the CRHIA (Research Centre for International Atlantic History). She has published on identity, gender representations in the Irish theatre and cinema and has co-translated two plays by Owen McCafferty.Frank Healy is a lecturer in English for Special Purposes at La Rochelle University, and a member of the CRHIA (Research Centre for Atlantic and International History). He has published work on identity, migration and sport, and has co-translated two plays by Northern Irish playwright Owen McCafferty.

• Contents: Olivier Coquelin, Brigitte Bastiat, Frank Healy: Introduction: Twenty Years of Peace and Reconciliation? – Political and Economic Developments – David Mitchell: Facets of the Unionist Experience since 1998: From the Agreement to Brexit and Beyond – Agnès Maillot: War by Other Means? Sinn Féin and Reconciliation since the GFA – Christophe Gillissen: Brexit and the Irish Border: An Historical Overview – Anne Groutel: Twenty Years after the Good Friday Agreement: Achievements, Prospects and Limits of Economic Cooperation between the Two Irelands – Religion, Urbanism and Education – Brian Mac Cuarta SJ: Reconciliation in Northern Ireland: One Jesuit’s Personal Experience – Gladys Ganiel: Protestants and Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland: Overcoming Opposition, Apathy and a Loss of Legitimacy? – Charlotte Barcat: The Peace Bridge and the Re- branding of the River Foyle in Derry- Londonderry: From a «Divided City» to a «Shared Space»? – Nadège Dumaux: Integrated Education and the Shared Education Programme: A Dichotomy in the Northern Irish Education System – Literature and the Arts – Bertrand Cardin: Troubles Never Come Singly: Paul McVeigh’s The Good Son and Northern Irish Pioneering Fiction about Gender Trouble – Brigitte Bastiat: Connecting with the «Nation» in Northern Ireland: Violence and Reconciliation in Four Plays by Owen McCafferty – Billy Gray: «You Can’t Grab Anything with a Closed Fist»: Reflections on Ulster Protestant Identity in Derek Lundy’s Men That God Made Mad: A Journey through Truth, Myth and Terror in Northern Ireland – Fabrice Mourlon: Beyond Trauma? The Expression of Survivors in Post- Conflict Northern Ireland – Hélène Alfaro- Hamayon: Art and Conflict Transformation: Models of Participation and Collaboration in the Shankill.