Making the Peace in Ireland (Hardcover)

This is the first book to cover the whole of the peace process in Northern Ireland, focusing on resolution as much as conflict and violence.

For nearly 30 years Northern Ireland has been a by-word for terrorism, bloodshed, military coercion and intense communal conflict. But Ireland is now experiencing a transition from a society in conflict to one at peace. In portraying the story of settlement and peace, rather than focusing exclusively on the IRA and terrorism, Jeremy Smith injects optimism and freshness into the history and the mixed ideas that sustain the identities and traditions are untangled. He considers what type of conflict it is in Ireland and how it fits into wider European patterns and places events in context by looking at historical roots across the centuries.