Northern Ireland

This outstandingly successful work of reference is now brought up to date to mark the hoped-for end of the Northern Ireland Troubles. The book is a detailed account, in diary form, of the thirty-year development of civil and political unrest in Northern Ireland. It also contains a number of short essays that look back at the major events of the last thirty years, assessing their significance and setting them in context. Among these are: Bloody Sunday (1972), the collapse of the Power Sharing Executive (1974), the Republican hunger strikes (1981), the Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985), the first I.R.A. cease-fire (1994) and the historic Good Friday Agreement (1998). This chronology is the essential guide to the politics and tragic events of the last thirty years in Northern Ireland. It also includes comprehensive coverage of the Peace Process.

A detailed account, in diary form, of the thirty-year development of civil and political unrest in Northern Ireland.

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[Tells] the story of the Troubles day by day in an objective, thoughtful, factual manner...one of the more valuable additions to the literature of theTroubles. Libraries holding the first edition should replace it with this one....

Paul Bew is Professor Politics in Queen's University, Belfast. Dr. Gordon Gillespie teaches in the same department. He is also working as Research Officer on a joint project—-organized by the Queen's University of Ulster, the University of Ulster and Democratic Dialogue—-examining the implementation of the equality agenda in Northern Ireland in the wake of the Good Friday Agreement. Both men are well known and respected commentators on the history and politics of Northern Ireland.