The Routledge Handbook of the Northern Ireland Conflict and Peace

Introduction
Laura McAtackney and Máirtín Ó Catháin

Overview of the Troubles
Máirtín Ó Catháin

PART 1: Debates and controversies

1. ‘Rigorous impartiality’? The UK Government, Amnesties and Northern Ireland Conflict Legacy 1998-2022
Thomas Leahy

2. The cutting edge of the IRA: the armed struggle North and South of the Border
Brian Hanley

3. Collusion
Mark McGovern

4. Getting beyond No: Ulster loyalist political thought during the Troubles
Connal Parr

5. Political Memoir-writing and Personal Narratives: Researching the Conflictual past in Northern Ireland
Stephen Hopkins

6. Gender and class in Progressive Loyalism
Sophie Long

7. Northern Ireland: still a place apart?
Aaron Edwards

PART 2: Environment and the everyday

8. ‘The writing on the wall’: the myths of Free Derry, 1968-72
Máirtín Ó Catháin

9. ‘Everything was concrete: the everyday impacts of planning and urban redevelopment policy before and during the Troubles
Adrian Grant
 
10. The Troubles, emigration to Britain and transnational memories of conflict
Fearghus Roulston Jack Crangle, Graham Dawson, Liam Harte and Barry Hazley

11. How economists have interpreted the Troubles
Graham Brownlow

12. Writing the intersections: representing gender and class in Troubles fiction
Ciara McAllister

13. Reconsidering children’s experiences of the conflict in Northern Ireland
Lucy Newby

PART 3: Events and personalities

14. ‘Fidel Castro in a mini-skirt’ or ‘St Joan of the Barricades’? Versions of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey
Sarah Campbell

15. The strategic transformation of Provisional Irish Republicanism, 1979-98
Jack Hepworth

16. John Hume and his ideas
Thomas Dolan

17. Catholic Bishops and Priests, Internationalism and the Conflict in Northern Ireland: The Links to Germany
Jan Freytag

18. Spattered Tunic: Trade Unions in the Northern Ireland Conflict, 1968-98
Emmet O’Connor

19. Women in Long Kesh/Maze prison: We Were there (2014), memory and visuality
Fionna Barber

20. The Politics of Gender in the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition
Robin Whitaker

PART 4: Strategies and aftermath

21. Dissident Irish Republicanism: Keeping the Flame Alive
Marisa McGlinchey

22. Policing and Peace in Northern Ireland: Change, Conflict and Cmmunity Confidence
Joanne Murphy

23. Everyday Architectures and Spaces of Territory and Division
David Coyles

24. Sinn Féin and the IRA Narrative
Agnès Maillot

25. Reconciliation and ‘Whataboutery’ in Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland
Cillian McGrattan

26. Beyond Simple Binaries? Reflecting on Immigrants’ Experiences in Northern Ireland
Philip McDermott

27. Politics, Homophobia and the Socio-Legal evolution of LGBTQ+ Communities in Northern Ireland
Marian Duggan

PART 5: Reflective practice

28. Where am I? Unsettling Encounters in Researching Memory, Subjectivity and Conflict Transformation After the Northern Irish Troubles
Graham Dawson

29. Photography and the Northern Irish Conflict: A Short History
Anthony Haughey

30. Meeting Place
Bryonie Reid

31. Curating the Troubles Legacy: ‘Art can Tread Were Words and Politics Often Can’t’
Kim Mawhinney

32. Journalism in Troubled Times
Malachi O’Doherty

33. Northern Protestants’ Irish Ghost Limb
Claire Mitchell

PART 6: Heritage and Memory

34. The Challenge of Change: Museum Practice Informed by and Informing the Peace Process
Elizabeth Crooke

35. The Evolution of Heritage and Memory in a Divided Society
Paul Mullan

36. Exhibiting the Troubles: How Museums Claim Space in the Landscape of Post-Conflict Societies
Kathryn McClurkin

37. Emblems of the Peace Process: Conflict-Related Artefacts in Northern Ireland’s Heritage Sector
Erin Hinson

38. Commemorating Conflict in the Paramilitary Museum
Katie Markham

39. Materializing Conflict and Peace: Presences and Absences from the Recent Past in the North of Ireland
Laura McAtackney

PART 7: Creative responses

40. Things Don’t Seem Right: TheAffective and Institutional Politics of Writing About the North of Ireland from the North of England
Caroline Magennis

41. From Trauma to Promise? The state of Northern Ireland in Post-Agreement Drama
Stephanie Lehner

42. Centering the Home in the Study of Conflict: Domestic Space, Memory and the Troubles
Eli Davies

43. Staging Ground: Temporality and Site-Specificity at Ebrington Barracks
Sarah Feinstein

44. Religious women and the Troubles: an oral history
Dianne Kirby

45. A Ghost Estate and an Empty Grave: the O’Dowd Murders and their Aftermath
Martin Doyle

Biography

Laura McAtackney is Professor in Archaeology at the Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork, Ireland, and Professor in Heritage Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. She uses contemporary archaeological approaches to understand difficult recent pasts including the Northern Irish conflict and peace process, gendered institutions and colonial legacies. She is the author of An Archaeology of the Troubles: The Dark Heritage of Long Kesh/Maze (2014).

Máirtín Ó Catháin is Senior Lecturer in Modern Irish History at the University of Central Lancashire. He has also worked for the Workers’ Educational Association and Ulster People’s College in Northern Ireland in the past and has specific interests in local labour and social history, oral history, and everyday life approaches to the Northern Irish conflict and peace process.