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Northern Ireland a Generation After Good Friday : Lost Futures and New Horizons in the ‘long Peace’ by Colin Coulter; Niall Gilmartin; Katy Hayward; Peter Shirlow is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The Good Friday Agreement is widely celebrated as a political success story, one that has brought peace to a region previously synonymous across the globe with political violence. The truth, as ever, is rather more complicated than that. In many respects, the era of the peace process has seen Northern Irish society change almost beyond recognition. Those incidents of politically motivated violence that were once commonplace have become thankfully rare, and a new generation has emerged whose identities and interests are rather more fluid and cosmopolitan than those of their parents. In many other regards, however, Northern Ireland continues to operate in the long shadow of its own turbulent recent past. Those who were victims of violence, as well as those who were its agents, have often been consigned to the margins of a society clearly still struggling to cope with the traumas of the Troubles. Furthermore, the transition to ‘peace’ has revealed the existence of new, and not so new, forms of violence in Northern Irish society, not least those directed towards women, ethnic minorities and the poor. In Northern Ireland a generation after Good Friday, we set out to capture the complex,

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Author

Colin Coulter; Niall Gilmartin; Katy Hayward; Peter Shirlow

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781526139276

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Humanities