The Making and Remaking of the Good Friday Agreement

The Making and Remaking of the Good Friday Agreement

by PaulBew (Author)

Synopsis

From 1994 to 2007, Paul Bew has been an avid and perceptive chronicler of the Northern Ireland peace process. He has interviewed all the leading figures involved in the Good Friday Agreement and provided incisive first-hand commentary on the negotiations for the major broadsheets on both islands. In this volume, which collects some of his most topical and prescient essays, he discusses the many crises which have afflicted the implementation of the Agreement since 1988 and which have paralysed the power-sharing institutions since 2002. He also deals in detail with the recent attempts to revive these institutions under the hegemony of the DUP and Sinn Fein. The book concludes with an insightful discussion of the future of Northern Ireland in the context of the elections of March 2007 and the historic agreement for power-sharing between these two long-standing political adversaries.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
Publisher: The Liffey Press
Published: May 2007

ISBN 10: 1905785178
ISBN 13: 9781905785179

Author Bio
Paul Bew is Professor of Irish Politics at Queens University Belfast. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and the author of Ireland: The Politics of Enmity, 1790-2007 in the Oxford History of Modern Europe series. In February 2007 he was appointed a cross-bench peer to the House of Lords. Commenting on the appointment, a Downing Street spokesman said, This honour reflects the outstanding contribution Paul Bew has made to the understanding of Irish history and Northern Ireland politics in all their complexity. That contribution is not just recognised in Britain and Ireland but wherever there is interest in Northern Ireland and its affairs.