LIB 230/320 Democracy and Global Diversity

Making Sense of the Troubles by David McKittrick; David McVea

Personal Accounts from Northern Ireland's Troubles by Marie-Therese Fay

Irish Historical Documents since 1800 by Alan O'Day (Editor)

Patriot Graves; Resistance in Ireland by P. Michael O'Sullivan; Don Johnson

The Politics of Memoir and the Northern Ireland Conflict by Stephen Hopkins

Contemporary Northern Irish Society by Colin Coulter

Bullets, Bombs and Cups of Tea by Ken Wharton

Northern Ireland: an Agony Continued by Ken Wharton

Ballymurphy and the Irish War by Ciaran De Barsid

The Northern Ireland Troubles in Britain by Graham Dawson (Editor); Stephen Hopkins (Editor); Jo Dover (Editor)

Northern Ireland's Lost Opportunity by Tony Novosel

Belfast Diaries by Steve Corbett

Sunningdale, the Ulster Workers' Council Strike and the Struggle for Democracy in Northern Ireland by David McCann (Editor); Cillian McGrattan (Editor) eBook- The 'Sunningdale experiment' of 1973-4 witnessed the first attempt to establish peace in Northern Ireland through power-sharing. However, its provisions, particularly the cross-border 'Council of Ireland', proved to be a step too far. The experiment floundered amid ongoing paramilitary-led violence, finally collapsing in May 1974 as a result of the Ulster Workers' Council strike. Drawing on new scholarship from some of the top political historians working on the period, this book presents a series of reflections on how key protagonists struggled with notions of power-sharing and the 'Irish dimension', and how those struggles inhibited a deepening of democracy and the ending of violence for so long.

Truth Recovery in Northern Ireland by Kirk Simpson eBook- Northern Ireland has entered what is arguably the key phase in its troubled political history - truth recovery and dealing with the legacy of the past - yet the void in knowledge and the lack of academic literature with regard to victims' rights is particularly striking. This book, newly available in paperback, analyses truth recovery as a fundamental aspect of the transition from political violence to peace, democracy and stability in post-conflict Northern Ireland. Kirk Simpson argues that it is essential for any process of truth recovery in Northern Ireland to provide the victims of political violence with the opportunity to express and articulate their narratives of suffering within the context of public dialogic processes. He outlines a unique and original model: that victims of political violence should be enabled to engage in meaningful truth recovery through a Habermasian process of public democratic deliberation and communication involving direct dialogue with the perpetrators of such violence. This process of 'communicative justice' is framed within Habermas's theory of communicative action and can help to ensure that legitimate truth recovery publicly acknowledges the trauma of victims and subjects perpetrator narratives of political violence to critical scrutiny and rational deconstruction. Crucially, the book aims to contribute to the empowerment of victims in Northern Ireland by stimulating constructive discussion and awareness of hitherto silenced narratives of the conflict. This difficult and unsettling interrogation and interpretation of the conflict from a comparatively 'unknown perspective' is central to the prospects for critically examining and mastering the past in Northern Ireland.