A treatise on Northern Ireland. Volume 3, Consociation and confederation, from antagonism to accommodation?
O'Leary, Brendan2020
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This concluding volume explains the making of this settlement, and the failed initiatives that preceded it under British direct rule. Long-term structural and institutional changes and short-term political maneuvers are given their due. The Anglo-Irish Agreement is identified as the political tipping point, itself partially the outcome of the hunger strikes of 1980-81 that had prevented the criminalisation of republicanism. Until 2016 the prudent judgment seemed to be that the Good Friday Agreement had broadly worked, enabling Sinn Féin and the DUP to share power, with intermittent attention from the sovereign governments. In appraising events and assessing possible futures, readers will find O'Leary's distinctive angle of vision clear, sharp, unsentimental, and unsparing of reputations, in keeping with the mastery of the historical panoramas displayed during this treatise.
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Author:
O'Leary, Brendan, author
Imprint:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Collation:
512 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
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Originally published: 2019.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780198869795 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
941.6
Language:
English
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BRN:
2249073
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