Northern Ireland 1968-2008

A re-examination of the Northern Ireland conflict and the ongoing peace process, using previously unreleased archival material. The book looks at choices and omissions by the main political parties and the British and Irish states that lay behind the emergence and persistence of the 'Troubles.'

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CILLIAN McGRATTAN is Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin, funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. He has published in Contemporary British History, Politics, British*Politics* among others

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Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction The Northern Ireland Conflict Turning Points in the Troubles, 1968-1971 Direct Rule and Power Sharing, 1972-1974 The Politics of Entrenchment, 1974-1985 The Northern Ireland Peace Process, 1985-1997 The Politics of the Past, 1998-2008 Conclusion