Agreement!
The State, Conflict and Change in Northern Ireland

Agreement! The State, Conflict and Change in Northern Ireland by Beatrix Campbell (Paperback) (9781905007745)

Published ten years after the Good Friday Agreement, this book is about the people, ideas and movements that created it. This book also documents the forces resisting the change, including those inside the police, military and secret services whose refusal to repudiate their long history of collusion prevented them from peace-making.

Published ten years after the Good Friday Agreement, this book is about the people, ideas and movements that created it. But it is also about its limits; how the Agreement's promise was frequently betrayed by an establishment that found it difficult to give up its dominance. Campbell documents the forces strongly resisting change, including those inside the police, military and secret services whose refusal to repudiate their long history of collusion prevented them from contributing to peace-making. Gender is woven into the texture of this story - from the men who sought to dominate the streets to the women who fought for the equality agenda.The book has an inspired sense of people making their own history, and is full of their stories. These are people whose contribution was from the grassroots - loyalist ex-combatant Gusty Spence, the PPU's Dawn Purvis, Unison's Inez McCormack, Thomas Donahue of the AFL-CIO, Father Aidan Troy of Holy Cross School, to name only a few. It is on the efforts of people such as these that the success of the new state will continue to depend.

PART 1 - TRIBUTARIES OF AGREEMENT1. Between Belfast and Manhattan: tributaries of change2. 1989-1994 Change and resistance3. 1994-1998 Back to Basics4. The Agreement and the Deal5. Equality after the AgreementPART II PARAMILITARISM, PRISONERS AND PEACEMAKING6. The journey of the loyalist paramilitaries7. The Republicans come in from the coldPART III SPACE AND SECTARIANISM8. The blockade of Holy Cross9. Girls and men, violence and innocence10. Space - the politics of different disadvantagesPART IV POLICE and STATE11. What\'s missing12. Policing and truth telling13. Punishment beatings, violence and restorative justice14. Mowlam, Mandelson and the policing crisisPART V COLLUSION15. The Scandal of Collusion16. The investigation - how the story came to be told17. Another death foretold18. A tale of two texts