Northern Ireland

The Reluctant Peace

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ID20004172
AuthorsFeargal Cochrane (0000-0002-2766-3547, corresponding author)
Year2013
Pages352
Publication date2013-04-15
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueNorthern Ireland (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherYale University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.12987/yale/9780300178708.001.0001
OpenAlexW4248359752
Open LibraryOL26888897M
ISBN9780300178708
LanguageEN
Citations received26

"In this thoughtful and engaging book, Feargal Cochrane looks at Northern Ireland's "Troubles" from the late 1960s to the present day. He explains why, a decade and a half after the peace process ended in political agreement in 1998, sectarian attitudes and violence continue to plague Northern Ireland today. Former members of the IRA now sit alongside their unionist adversaries in the Northern Ireland Assembly, but the region's attitudes have been slow to change and recent years have even seen an upsurge in violence on both sides. In this book, Cochrane, who grew up a Catholic in Belfast in the '70s and '80s, explores how divisions between Catholics and Protestants became so entrenched, and reviews the thirty years of political violence in Northern Ireland--which killed over 3,500 people--leading up to the peace agreement. The book asks whether the peace process has actually delivered for the citizens of Northern Ireland, and what more needs to be done to enhance the current reluctant peace."--Publisher's website

Geography · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Irish and British Studies · Political Systems and Governance · 20th century · 21st century · 941.6082 · Da990.u46 c628 2013 · foreign relations · Great britain · History · ireland · northern ireland · Peace · Peace-building · Political violence · politics and government

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