In Northern Ireland, a once seemingly intractable conflict is in a state of transformation. Lee
A. Smithey offers a grassroots view of that transformation, drawing on interviews …

For almost three decades the troubles in Northern Ireland raged, claiming over 3,600 lives,
with civilians accounting for almost half the fatalities. In this book, Jonathan Tonge examines …

This book arose from a Leverhulme Trust research project of the same title, conducted from
2006 to 2008, involving individual and group interviews with 147 republican and loyalist …

One promise of formal truth recovery processes, such as truth commissions, in transitional
societies is that they present the possibility of a common narrative emerging about the …

Challenging traditional narrow views, this unique work proposes to rethink and reinterpret
Ulster loyalism from the beginning of the" Troubles" to the present day, by tracing its …

This article will provide a framework for analysing unionist responses and reactions to the
Northern Irish peace process. It identifies four responses to the Belfast Agreement that have …

The uncomfortable truth about peace accords is that often they do not bring about a real and
lasting peace: while the conflict is officially over, civilians still live with the daily threat of …

Following the 1998 Belfast Agreement in Northern Ireland, levels of paramilitary violence
have declined substantially. Among loyalists, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and …

Research Highlights and Abstract Offers one of the first detailed considerations of how
political parties in Northern Ireland have adapted to the impact of the dual legitimacy of …

The Protestant Orange Order is the largest organization in civil society in Northern Ireland.
From 1905 until 2005, the Order was linked to the Ulster Unionist Party, until recently the …