Chris Gilligan - Peace or War?: Understanding the Peace Process in Northern Ireland

Edited by

CHRIS GILLIGAN

JON TONGE

First published 1997 by Ashgate Publishing

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Chris Gilligan and Jon Tonge

Jon Tonge

Chris Gilligan

James White McAuley

Mark McGovern

Mark Ryan

Alan Greer

Paddy Hillyard

Kevin Rooney

Pete Shirlow

Rachel Ward

Chris Gilligan and Jon Tonge

Chris Gilligan is a Ph.D student in the Department of Politics and Contemporary History, European Studies Research Institute, at the University of Salford. He is a regular book reviewer for Political Studies on various aspects of Northern Irish politics. He is currently engaged in research on the way in which identity has become a key category for understanding the conflict, and peace process, in Northern Ireland.

Alan Greer is senior lecturer in Politics in the Faculty of Economics and Social Science at the University of the West of England, Bristol. His most recent publications include Rural Politics in Northern Ireland: Policy Networks and Agricultural Development since Partition, Avebury, 1996.

Paddy Hillyard is Director of Centre for Socio-Legal Studies in the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol. He is a member of the editorial board of Social and Legal Studies: An International Journal, and a former chair of Liberty (the National Council for Civil Liberties). He has written widely on Northern Ireland particularly in the field of sociology of law and civil liberties. His last book was Suspect Community: Peoples Experience of the Prevention of Terrorism Acts in Britain, Pluto, 1993.

James White McAuley is Reader in Behavioural Sciences at the University of Huddersfield and has written many articles on Northern Irish politics, culture and society. Publications include The Politics of Identity: a loyalist community in Belfast, Avebury, 1994.

Mark McGovern is a lecturer in Applied Social Sciences at Edge Hill University College, Ormskirk, Dr Mark McGovern is the author of numerous articles on Northern Irish politics and co-editor of Who Are the People? Unionism, Loyalism and Protestantism in Contemporary Northern Ireland, Pluto, 1997.

Kevin Rooney is a lecturer in Politics and History at West Herts College of Further Education. He is a regular contributor to a range of publications on Irish politics.

Mark Ryan is a freelance journalist. He has contributed to a wide range of publications including The Daily Telegraph, and Living Marxism. He is the author of War and Peace in Ireland; Britain and the IRA in the New World Order, Pluto, 1994.

Pete Shirlow teaches Geography at the School of Geosciences, Queens University, Belfast, where he is also Director of the Socio-Spatial Research Unit. He has written widely on the political economy of Ireland and has recently edited two books for Pluto Press: Development Ireland; Contemporary Issues and Who are the People? Unionism, Loyalism and Protestantism in Northern Ireland.

Jon Tonge is a lecturer in Politics in the Department of Politics and Contemporary History, European Studies Research Institute (ESRI), at the University of Salford, chairing the Irish Studies sub-group within ESRI. He has published various articles and chapters on Northern Ireland, in addition to his most recent publication, Conflict and Change in Northern Ireland, Prentice Hall, 1997.

Rachel Ward is currently undertaking a Ph.D on the conflict between nationalism and feminism in the context of Ireland, in the Faculty of Economic and Social Science, at the University of the West of England, Bristol. She is a graduate of the University of Salford, where she attained a B.Sc (Hons) in Social Science and an MA in Politics and Contemporary History.

A considerable number of debts have been incurred in the production of this book. We wish to thank Sarah Markham and Anne Keirby at Ashgate for acting so speedily upon our proposal and for their patient help throughout the production of this book. A big thank-you is also due to each author for the prompt submission of their manuscripts. Some of the ideas of the co-editors of this book are influenced by the contributions to the seminar series, Understanding the Peace Process in Ireland, staged by the European Studies Institute at the University of Salford, in 1996. We wish to thank each contributor in addition to those of Dr Alan Greer, Dr Paddy Hillyard and Dr Jim McAuley, whose contributions appear in this book: Professor Steve Bruce Aberdeen); Gregory Campbell (DUP), David Ervine (PUP) Dr Sean Farren (SDLP) Eric Illsley MP (Labour) and Professor Brendan OLeary (LSE); A thank you is also due to the European Commission and the Ireland Fund of Great Britain for their generous sponsorship of the event and their financial support for a Salford University study tour to Ireland during the same period. In respect of the latter, we wish to thank Alex Attwood (SDLP); Professor Paul Bew (Queens, now Magdalen, Cambridge); Bobby Lavery (Sinn Fein); Nelson McCausland (UUP) and Alex Maskey (Sinn Fein). Considerable debts are also owed to Professor Geoff Harris and Heather Lally for their support and organisation of the seminar series and likewise to Jeff Evans and Rachel Ward in respect of the study tour.

On a personal note, Chris Gilligan wishes to thank Rob, Marcus, Penny, Archie, Neil and Hugh for being a constant source of intellectual stimulation. Simon and Yvonne for their generous hospitality on the many trips to Manchester. Dolores and Katie for helping to make the study trips to Dublin more enjoyable. Louise for helping out on many of the trips to Belfast. And a special thank you to Aisling, whose presence brings brightness to even the gloomiest of days.

Jon Tonge wishes to thank Anita and Connell for all their forebearance and promises substantial compensation.