A Companion to Conflict and Peace in Northern Ireland

The book is an edited collection around the central theme of Northern Ireland's politics, society and structure. It represents a collection that will become a vital reference work to anyone working within Irish and British politics, and the arenas of peace and conflict and memory studies.

This edited collection on the politics and society of Northern Ireland includes original material on the background to, and patterns of, conflict; its main protagonists; the social structure of Northern Irish society; popular culture and representations of the conflict; the memory and legacy of political violence, and discussions and debates concerning the future of Northern Ireland. It presents theoretically informed real-life case studies and charts the conflict's many dimensions, tracing its trajectory from partition to the pressing challenges of reconciliation, coexistence, and envisioning Northern Ireland's tomorrow.

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ames W. McAuley is Emeritus Professor of Political Sociology and Irish Studies at the University of Huddersfield, Visiting Professor in Political Sociology at Leeds Beckett University, Adjunct Full Professor of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin and Honorary Research Fellow in Political Psychology at Liverpool Hope University.

Máire Braniff is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Ulster University, Belfast. She focuses her research and teaching on the changes which contribute to building sustainable peace and thriving societies.

Graham Spencer is Emeritus Professor in Social and Political Conflict at the University of Portsmouth UK, Distinguished Senior Research Fellow, Edward M. Kennedy Institute for Conflict Intervention, NUI, Maynooth, Ireland and Visiting fellow, John McCormack Graduate Scholl of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston.

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

List of Figures

List of Tables

Jon Tonge

Foreword

James W. McAuley, Máire Braniff and Graham Spencer

Introduction and Overview

Part One: Background and Patterns of Conflict, Violence and Settlement

Landon Hancock

From Plantation to Partition: the development of conflicting identities

Simon Prince

The Origins of the 'Troubles'

Eamon O'Kane

Governments in Conflict

Shaun McDaid

'Tangled up in Red, White and Blue': securitization, the border, and North-South relations since partition

Part Two: Protagonists in the Conflict

Clare Rice

Ulster Unionism and Irish Nationalism

Graham Spencer

Ulster Loyalism

John F. Morrison

Irish Republicanism

Aaron Edwards

The British Army and the Security Forces

Jonny Byrne

Policing and Reform in the 'new' Northern Ireland

Part Three: Structure, Identity and Belonging

Neil Ferguson

Social Identity, Belonging and the Conflict

L. Philip Barnes

Religion and the Conflict

John Bell

Sport, Conflict and Peace

Alan McCully and Alan Smith

The Political Economy of Education since the Peace Agreement

Colin Coulter

Class and Conflict

James W. McAuley

Sectarianism, Segregation and Socialization into Difference

Philip McDermott and Shannon Doherty

Parity of Esteem for All? Migrants and Political Belonging

Part Four: Women, Gender, Conflict and Peacebuilding

Máire Braniff

'The Peace We Know': Women in Peace and Conflict

Fiona Bloomer, Claire Pierson and Danielle Mackle

Gender and Sexuality

Fidelma Ashe and John O'Doherty

Conflict, Peacebuilding and LGBTQI+ Identities

Part Five: Representations of Conflict

Dominic Bryan

Popular Culture and Political Representations: Notes from the 'Culture War'

Paddy Hoey and Stephen Baker

The Media: from the 'Troubles' and the Peace Process to Online Sectarian Entrepreneurship

Connal Parr

Northern Ireland in Plays, Television and Film

Part Six: Memory, Legacy and Reconciliation

Rebecca Graff-McRae

'Ghost Stories You'll Tell to Your Wains': Memory, Mourning, and Commemorative Politics

Kris Brown

Memory and Reconstructions of the Past: The Role of Commemoration

Stephen Hopkins

Political Memoir Writing and Memories of Conflict: Personal narratives of the 'Troubles'

Duncan Morrow

Reconciliation, Change, Politics and Peace

Part Seven: Politics, Society and the Future

David Mitchell

Politics after the Belfast/ Good Friday Agreement - Lessons of Peace and Conflict

Giada Lagana

Metagoverning out of Conflict: the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation

Cillian McGrattan

The Politics of the Third Space

Mary-Louise Corr and Siobhan McAlister

Young People in Conflict and Post-Conflict

Feargal Cochrane

A Fragile Peace: Contemporary and Future Politics of Northern Ireland

Notes on Contributors

Index