The Legacy of the Good Friday Agreement

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.

1.Introduction.- 2.Eamonn O'Kane and Paul Dixon, 'The Northern Irish Peace Process: Political Issues and Controversies'.- Part I The Will to Change: Key Players and Events.- 3.Paul Dixon, 'Tony Blair's Honourable Deception: In Defence of the "Dirty" Politics of the Northern Irish Peace Process'.- 4.Charles I. Armstrong, '"George Mitchell's Peace": The Good Friday Agreement in Colum McCann's Novel TransAtlantic'.- 5.Jan Erik Mustad, 'From Protest to Power: The Rise of the DUP'.- Part II Winners, Losers and Beyond the Zero Sum Game?.- 6.Stefanie Lehner, 'Troubling Victims: Representing a New Politics of Victimhood in Northern Ireland on Stage and Screen'.- 7.Neil Jarman, 'A Bitter Peace: Flag Protests, the Politics of No and Culture Wars'.- 8.Gladys Ganiel, 'A Gender Balanced Approach to Transforming Cultures of Militarism in Northern Ireland'.- 9.Sissel Rosland, 'Making Hope and History Rhyme? Dealing with Division and the Past in Northern Ireland after the Good Friday Agreement'.- Part III The Efficacy and Narratives of Culture.- 10.Seán Crosson, 'The Shore (2011): Examining the Reconciliation Narrative in Post-Troubles Cinema'.- 11.Margaret Mills Harper, 'Elementals in Language: Seamus Heaney after the Good Friday Agreement'.- 12.Anne Karhio, 'Finished and Under Construction: Visual Representation and Spatial Relations in Post-Ceasefire Northern Irish Poetry'.- 13.Ruben Moi, 'Post-Good Friday Positions and Parallaxes in Sinéad Morrissey's Poetry'.- PART IV. THE FUTURE OF PEACE.- 14.David Herbert, 'Legacies of 1998: What Kind of Social Peace Has Developed in Northern Ireland? Social Attitudes, Inequality and Territoriality'.- 15.John Brewer, 'The Sociology of the Northern Irish Peace Process'.