TY - BOOK AU - Walker, Brian Mercer TI - A Political History of the Two Irelands : From Partition to Peace SN - 9780230361478 U1 - 941.5082 WAL PY - 2012/// CY - Basingstoke PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Ireland - History - Partition, 1921 KW - Ireland - Politics and government - 1922-- KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Nationalism KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National KW - Irish unification question KW - Northern Ireland - Politics and government KW - Northern Ireland - Relations - Ireland KW - Ireland - Relations - Northern Ireland KW - HISTORY / Europe / Ireland N1 -

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-241) and index.

; Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- PART I -- Action and Reaction : Majority Identities, 1921-60 -- Parallel Universes : Minority Identities, 1921-60 -- Remembering and Forgetting : Commemorations and Identity, 1921-60 -- PART II -- Conflict and Conciliation : Identities and Change, 1960-2010 -- Remembering and Reclaiming : Commemorations and Identity, 1960-2010 -- The Past and the Present : History, Identity and the Peace Process N2 - "An examination of the fraught dynamics of identity politics in and between Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State/ Republic of Ireland from 1921 to the present. This book provides a new understanding of the 'Troubles' and the peace process. Commemorations and the influence of history receive special attention, as does the European context"-- Provided by publisher ER -