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Making Sense of the Troubles: The Story of the Conflict in Northern Ireland

David McKittrick, David McVea

Why did Northern Ireland slide into decades of violence, and how did a fragile peace emerge?

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Author
David McKittrick, David McVea

Why read it

  • You will understand why many Unionists saw even small gestures of reform as a betrayal
  • You will see how Protestants split across many churches were held together politically by the Orange Order
  • You will learn how the arrival of soldiers brought a brief relief that gave way to deeper violence

Who it is for

  • A traveller to Belfast who wants to understand the murals
  • A student of conflict resolution studying Northern Ireland
  • A reader who knows the headlines but not the causes

Contents

  1. Making sense of the troubles : the story of the conflict in Northern Ireland
  2. TROUBLES
  3. The Orange Order
  4. The Catholic minority
  5. Political stagnation
  6. The O'Neill years 1963-69
  7. Economic pressures
  8. The Lemass visit
  9. Unionist opposition
  10. Ian Paisley
  11. 1 966: loyalist violence
  12. The civil rights campaign
  13. 1968: the mould breaks
  14. Westminster pressure
  15. 1969: end of the O'Neill era
  16. Soldiers on the streets
  17. 1970—71: the violence increases
  18. Faulkner becomes prime minister
  19. Internment
  20. The end of Stormont 1972-73
  21. 1972: the most violent year
  22. The final weeks of Stormont
  23. Talks and violence
  24. New proposals
  25. Sunningdale
  26. Sunningdale, strike & stalemate 1974-76
  27. The Rees convention
  28. The violence continues
  29. From Castlereagh to Warren point 1977-79
  30. The second strike
  31. Violence and changing security policy
  32. Party differences
  33. Republican evolution
  34. From Castlereagh to Warrenpoint: 1977-79
  35. The hungerstrikes 1980-81
  36. The hungerstrikes: 1980-81 147
  37. Anglo-Irish accord 1982-85
  38. Men of violence
  39. Security reactions
  40. The rise of Sinn Fein
  41. Anglo-Irish Agreement
  42. Enniskillen, Libya & bombs in England 1986-93
  43. The Libyan connection
  44. Violence 1988-90
  45. Enniskillen, Libya & bombs in England: 1986-93
  46. Peace process 1993-94
  47. Hume — Adams
  48. The back-channel
  49. IRA bombs and loyalist retaliation
  50. The Downing Street Declaration
  51. Peace process: 1993-94 199
  52. IRA ceasefire
  53. Decommissioning, Docklands & Drumcree 1994-96
  54. The decommissioning problem
  55. Drumcree and the rise of David Trimble
  56. Enter George Mitchell
  57. 1 996: the IRA ceasefire ends
  58. Decommissioning, Docklands & Drumcree: 1994-96 209
  59. Drumcree 1996
  60. The talks continue

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