David McCann is Lecturer in Politics at Ulster UniversityCillian McGrattan is Lecturer in Politics at Ulster University

• Part I: Introduction and overview of the Sunningdale Agreement1 Introduction David McCann and Cillian McGrattan2 The Ulster Workers’ Council strike: the perfect storm Gordon Gillespie3 Understanding aspiration, anxiety, assumption and ambiguity: the anatomy of Sunningdale Arthur AugheyPart II: The lessons of Sunningdale: the key protagonists4 Sunningdale and the Irish dimension: a step too far?John Coakley5 British government policy post 1974: learning slowly between Sunningdales? Eamonn O’Kane6 British security policy and the Sunningdale Agreement: the consequences of using force to combat terrorism in a liberal democracy Aaron Edwards7 Sunningdale and the limits of ‘rejectionist’ Unionism Stuart Aveyard and Shaun McDaid8 Stan Orme and the road to ‘Industrial Democracy’: British attempts at the politicisation of working-class Protestants in Northern Ireland, 1973–75 Tony Craig9 Power sharing and the Irish dimension: the conundrum for the SDLP in Northern Ireland Sarah Campbell10 ‘1974 – Year of Liberty’? The Provisional IRA and Sunningdale Henry PattersonPart III: The legacies of Sunningdale11 Cultural responses to and the legacies of Sunningdale Connal Parr12 ‘Slow learners’? Comparing the Sunningdale Agreement and the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement Thomas HennesseyAppendix: The Sunningdale Agreement (December 1973) ReferencesIndex