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Negotiating a settlement in Northern Ireland, 1969-2019, from Sunningdale to St Andrews, John Coakley; Jennifer Todd

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

Negotiating a settlement in Northern Ireland, 1969-2019

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John Coakley; Jennifer Todd

from Sunningdale to St Andrews

Negotiating a Settlement in Northern Ireland: From Sunningdale to St Andrews uses original material from witness seminars, elite interviews, and archive documents to explore the shape taken by the Irish peace process, and in particular to analyse the manner in which successful stages of this were negotiated. Northern Ireland's Good Friday Agreement of 1998 marked the end a 30-year conflict that had witnessed more than 3,000 deaths, thousands of injuries, catastrophic societal damage, and large-scale economic dislocation. This book traces the roots of the Agreement over the decades, stretching back to the Sunningdale conference of 1973 and extending up to at least the St Andrews Agreement of 2006. It describes the changing relationship between parties to the conflict (nationalist and unionist groups within Northern Ireland, and the Irish and British governments) and identifies three dimensions of significant change: new ways of implementing the concept of sovereignty, growing acceptance of power sharing, and the steady emergence of substantial equality in the socio-economic, cultural, and political domains. --, Provided by publisher

1: Introduction: defining moments in the British-Irish relationship 2: The Sunningdale Agreement, 1973 3: The Anglo-Irish Agreement, 1985 4: The Downing Street Declaration and Framework Documents, 1993-95 5: The Good Friday Agreement, 1998: negotiation 6: The Good Friday Agreement, 1998: implementation 7: Conclusion: benchmarks from the British-Irish process