European University Institute Library

Northern Ireland, challenges of peace and reconciliation since the Good Friday Agreement, edited by Olivier Coquelin, Brigitte Bastiat and Frank Healy

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

Northern Ireland

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edited by Olivier Coquelin, Brigitte Bastiat and Frank Healy

Reimagining Ireland,, vol. 105, 1662-9094

challenges of peace and reconciliation since the Good Friday Agreement

"More than twenty years after the peace agreement signed in Belfast on 10 April 1998, an assessment is overdue, particularly given the current political context in Northern Ireland. A serious political crisis led to the suspension of the regional institutions from January 2017 to January 2020, and the Brexit negotiations did not facilitate the search for a solution, especially as the confidence-and-supply agreement between the British Conservative Party and the DUP prevented London from acting as an honest broker between Sinn Féin and the DUP. At the same time, the issue of the Irish border created tensions between Dublin and London. This situation has been compounded by the resurgence of rioting, mostly in Loyalist areas of Belfast and Derry/Londonderry, in April 2021, against the backdrop of Brexit's Northern Ireland Protocol and communal resentment. Emanating from a conference jointly organised at the University of Caen Normandy and the University of La Rochelle, this collection of essays - bringing together academic and independent scholars from various disciplines and nationalities - takes a critical look at the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, from the collaboration between Dublin and London to the new political configurations in Northern Ireland, as well as interfaith, cultural, social and economic developments. Divided into three main parts, it furnishes an opportunity to better understand the reasons for the apparent deterioration in inter-community understanding since 1998, but also to study the numerous initiatives that have sought to promote reconciliation, be it in the economy, the working environment, in the literary and artistic spheres, in schools or in the urban landscape"--, Provided by publisher

Introduction : twenty years of peace and reconciliation? / Olivier Coquelin, Brigitte Bastiat, Frank Healy -- Facets of the Unionist experience since 1998 : from the Agreement to Brexit and beyond / David Mitchell -- War by other means? : Sinn Féin and reconciliation since the GFA / Agnès Maillot -- Brexit and the Irish border / Christophe Gillissen -- Twenty years after the Good Friday Agreement : achievements, prospects and limits of economic cooperation between the two Irelands / Anne Groutel -- Reconciliation in Northern Ireland : one Jesuit's personal experience / Brian Mac Cuarta SJ -- Protestants and peacebuilding in Northern Ireland : overcoming opposition, apathy and a loss of legitimacy? / Gladys Ganiel -- The Peace Bridge and the re-branding of the River Foyle in Derry-Londonderry : from a 'divided city' to a 'shared space'? / Charlotte Barcat -- Integrated education and the shared education programme : a dichotomy in the Northern Irish education system / Nadège Dumaux -- Troubles never come singly : Paul McVeigh's The good son and the Northern Irish pioneering fiction about gender trouble / Bertrand Cardin -- Connecting with the 'nation" in Northern Ireland : violence and reconciliation in four plays by Owen McCafferty / Brigitte Bastiat -- 'You can't grab anything with a closed fist' : reflections on Ulster Protestant identity in Derek Lundy's Men that God made mad : a journey through truth, myth and terror in Northern Ireland / Billy Gray -- Beyond trauma? : the expression of survivors in post-conflict Northern Ireland / Fabrice Mourlon -- Art and conflict-transformation : models of participation and collaboration in the Shankill / Hélène Alfaro-Hamayon