The Legacy of the Good Friday Agreement: Northern Irish Politics, Culture and Art after 1998

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi Introduction (Charles I. Armstrong, David Herbert, Jan Erik Mustad)....Pages 1-14 The Northern Irish Peace Process: Political Issues and Controversies (Eamonn O’Kane, Paul Dixon)....Pages 15-33 Front Matter ....Pages 35-35 Tony Blair’s Honourable Deception: In Defence of the ‘Dirty’ Politics of the Northern Ireland Peace Process (Paul Dixon)....Pages 37-55 ‘George Mitchell’s Peace’: The Good Friday Agreement in Colum McCann’s Novel TransAtlantic (Charles I. Armstrong)....Pages 57-71 From Protest to Power: The Rise of the DUP (Jan Erik Mustad)....Pages 73-85 Front Matter ....Pages 87-87 Troubling Victims: Representing a New Politics of Victimhood in Northern Ireland on Stage and Screen (Stefanie Lehner)....Pages 89-108 A Bitter Peace: Flag Protests, the Politics of No and Culture Wars (Neil Jarman)....Pages 109-132 A Gender-Balanced Approach to Transforming Cultures of Militarism in Northern Ireland (Gladys Ganiel)....Pages 133-152 Making Hope and History Rhyme? Dealing with Division and the Past in Northern Ireland After the Good Friday Agreement (Sissel Rosland)....Pages 153-172 Front Matter ....Pages 173-173 The Shore (2011): Examining the Reconciliation Narrative in Post-Troubles Cinema (Seán Crosson)....Pages 175-188 Elementals in Language: Seamus Heaney After the Good Friday Agreement (Margaret Mills Harper)....Pages 189-206 Finished and Under Construction: Visual Representation and Spatial Relations in Post-Ceasefire Northern Irish Poetry (Anne Karhio)....Pages 207-227 Post-Good Friday Positions and Parallaxes in Sinéad Morrissey’s Poetry (Ruben Moi)....Pages 229-246 Front Matter ....Pages 247-247 Legacies of 1998: What Kind of Social Peace Has Developed in Northern Ireland? Social Attitudes, Inequalities, and Territorialities (David Herbert)....Pages 249-270 The Sociology of the Northern Irish Peace Process (John D. Brewer)....Pages 271-289 Back Matter ....Pages 291-297