Feargal Cochrane - Northern Ireland: The Fragile Peace

NORTHERN IRELAND

Feargal Cochrane is Emeritus Professor of International Conflict Analysis and Senior Research Fellow at the Conflict Analysis Research Centre, University of Kent. He is the author or co-author of eleven books, including Breaking Peace: Brexit and Northern Ireland, Mediating Power-Sharing and Migration and Security in the Global Age.

Copyright 2013 Feargal Cochrane

Chapters 10, 11 and Epilogue copyright 2021 Feargal Cochrane

This new edition published in paperback in 2021

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Extracts on p. 119 from the poems Ulster Names and Postscript 1984 by John Hewitt are taken from John Hewitt, The Selected Poems of John Hewitt, ed. Michael Longley & Frank Ormsby (Blackstaff Press, 2007) and reproduced by permission of Blackstaff Press on behalf of the Estate of John Hewitt.

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In memory of Lyra McKee

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

Plate section

ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

FIRST EDITION

T HERE ARE A number of people whose advice, encouragement and support have been critical during the writing of this book. My editor at Yale, Phoebe Clapham, has steered the project from its inception and has guided me with consummate professionalism and care through the process of producing and refining the manuscript; for this I am truly thankful. Thanks are also due to my copy-editor, Clive Liddiard, for his sharp eye and attention to detail.

I began writing the book while working at Lancaster University, and am indebted to my former colleagues and friends at Lancaster, in particular Professor David Denver, who provided encouragement, friendship and, at times, useful critical engagement throughout the project. I would also like to thank all my students at Lancaster over the last fourteen years for their engagement with the themes at the centre of the book.

I moved jobs while writing the book, and I would like to thank my new colleagues at the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent for their friendship and collegiality. I would particularly like to thank my Head of School, Professor Richard Sakwa, and Professor Richard Whitman for easing me into my new role at Kent and for helping me to balance my responsibilities within the School with the process of finishing the book. My new colleagues at the Conflict Analysis Research Centre at Kent have also provided me with new perspectives on Northern Ireland, as well as on wider issues relating to political violence. I would particularly like to thank Dr Gulnur Aybet, Dr Ruth Blakeley, Dr Govinda Clayton, Dr Philip Cunliffe, Dr Andrea den Boer, Dr Neo Loizides, Professor Hugh Miall, Dr Doug Stokes and Dr Harmonie Toros.