Relative to its size Northern Ireland is possibly the most heavily researched area on earth;
hundreds of books and thousands of articles have been published since the current troubles …

This book offers a uniquely comprehensive account of the conflict in Northern Ireland,
providing a rigorous analysis of its dynamics and present structure and proposing a new …

A growing band of historians, political commentators, and cultural critics has sought to
analyse Ireland's past and present in colonial terms. For some, including Irish Republicans …

Written during the Northern Ireland peace process and just before the Good Friday
Agreement, The Politics of Antagonism sets out to answer questions such as why successive …

Has conflict in Northern Ireland kept political dimensions of religion alive, and has religion
played a role in fuelling conflict? Conflict in Northern Ireland is not and never will be a holy …

This book directly challenges the stereotype that women are inherently peaceable by
examining female combatants' involvement in ethno-national conflicts. Drawing upon …

On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Northern IrelandTroubles' the Ulster Loyalists are an
increasingly alienated people. In this timely book Steve Bruce provides crucial insights into …

Abstract Changes in collective categories of identity are at the core of social transformation.
The causal linkages among identity change, institutional change, and change in modes of …

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 …

Anti-Catholicism forms part of the dynamics to Northern Ireland's conflict and is critical to the
self-defining identity of certain Protestants. However, anti-Catholicism is as much a …