James W. McAuley is Professor of Political Sociology and Irish Studies at the University of HuddersfieldMáire Braniff is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Ulster UniversityGraham Spencer is Professor in Social and Political Conflict at the University of Portsmouth

• Introduction: through a single lens? Understanding the Troubles of the past, present and future – James W. McAuley, Máire Braniff and Graham Spencer1 Agonistic remembering and Northern Ireland’s 1968 @ 50 – Chris Reynolds2 Pogroms, presence, myth and memory: August 1969 and the outbreak of the Northern Ireland conflict – Shaun McDaid3 ‘Touching the third rail?’ The problems of dealing with the past in Northern Ireland – Eamonn O’Kane4 On notions of dealing with the past in Northern Ireland and the place of historians – Stuart Aveyard5 Collective memory, ethno-national forgetting and the limits of history in misremembering the past – Aaron Edwards6 Irish republicanisms and radical nostalgia – Stephen Hopkins7 Irish republican commemoration and narratives of legitimacy – Kris Brown8 Ulster loyalism, memory and commemoration – James W. McAuley and Neil Ferguson9 Remember the women: memory-making within loyalism – Lisa Faulkner-Byrne, John Bell and Philip McCready10 Visual memory at sites of troubles past: participatory and collective memories in Croatia and Argentina – Máire Braniff11 The tears of the mothers: conflict and memory in comparison – Catherine McGlynn12 The problem of legacy and remembering the past in Northern Ireland – Graham SpencerIndex