The Legacy of the Good Friday Agreement

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Introduction

   • Charles I. Armstrong, David Herbert, Jan Erik Mustad

   Pages 1-14

3. The Northern Irish Peace Process: Political Issues and Controversies

   • Eamonn O’Kane, Paul Dixon

   Pages 15-33

4. The Will to Change: Key Players and Events

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35

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   2. Tony Blair’s Honourable Deception: In Defence of the ‘Dirty’ Politics of the Northern Ireland Peace Process

      • Paul Dixon

      Pages 37-55

   3. ‘George Mitchell’s Peace’: The Good Friday Agreement in Colum McCann’s Novel TransAtlantic

      • Charles I. Armstrong

      Pages 57-71

   4. From Protest to Power: The Rise of the DUP

      • Jan Erik Mustad

      Pages 73-85

5. Winners, Losers and Beyond the Zero Sum Game?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87

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   2. Troubling Victims: Representing a New Politics of Victimhood in Northern Ireland on Stage and Screen

      • Stefanie Lehner

      Pages 89-108

   3. A Bitter Peace: Flag Protests, the Politics of No and Culture Wars

      • Neil Jarman

      Pages 109-132

   4. A Gender-Balanced Approach to Transforming Cultures of Militarism in Northern Ireland

      • Gladys Ganiel

      Pages 133-152

   5. Making Hope and History Rhyme? Dealing with Division and the Past in Northern Ireland After the Good Friday Agreement

      • Sissel Rosland

      Pages 153-172

6. The Efficacy and Narratives of Culture

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173

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   2. The Shore (2011): Examining the Reconciliation Narrative in Post-Troubles Cinema

      • Seán Crosson

      Pages 175-188

   3. Elementals in Language: Seamus Heaney After the Good Friday Agreement

      • Margaret Mills Harper

      Pages 189-206

   4. Finished and Under Construction: Visual Representation and Spatial Relations in Post-Ceasefire Northern Irish Poetry

      • Anne Karhio

      Pages 207-227

   5. Post-Good Friday Positions and Parallaxes in Sinéad Morrissey’s Poetry

      • Ruben Moi

      Pages 229-246

7. The Future of Peace

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 247-247

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   2. Legacies of 1998: What Kind of Social Peace Has Developed in Northern Ireland? Social Attitudes, Inequalities, and Territorialities

      • David Herbert

      Pages 249-270

   3. The Sociology of the Northern Irish Peace Process

      • John D. Brewer

      Pages 271-289

This book provides a multidisciplinary collection of essays that seek to explore the deeply problematic legacy of post-Agreement Northern Ireland. Thus, the authors of this book look at a number of issues that continue to stymie the development of a robust and sustainable peacebuilding project, including segregation, contested parades and flags, ethnic party mobilization, and memorialization. Towards addressing these contemporary issues, authors are drawn from a range of disciplines, including politics, history, literature, drama, cultural studies, sociology, and social psychology.

• Good Friday Agreement
• Northern Ireland
• multidisciplinary
• legacy
• identity
• belonging
• culture
• peace process
• symbolism
• deception
• realism
• political morality
• referendum
• negotiation
• heroism
• storytelling
• power
• unionism
• victimhood
• civil rights

• University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway

  Charles I. Armstrong, David Herbert, Jan Erik Mustad

• Kingston University, London, UK

  David Herbert

Charles I. Armstrong is a Professor of British literature at the University of Agder, Norway.


David Herbert is Professor of Sociology at Kingston University, UK, and Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Agder, Norway.


Jan Erik Mustad is Associate Professor in British Studies in the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Agder, Norway. 

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