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Confronting the Irish Past
- The 1912-1923 Decade in Light of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement
Engelsk Hardback
Confronting the Irish Past
- The 1912-1923 Decade in Light of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement
Engelsk Hardback

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Hannah Arendt, Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, argued that some parts of history need not just to be understood but to be confronted as well. The 1998 Belfast or Good Friday Agreement between the two communities (nationalist and unionist) in Northern Ireland arranged power-sharing structures of governance between them. The Agreement was underwritten by the British and Irish governments. The signatories of the Agreement knew that its success required a cultural shift or conversion in each community.

To that end, the decisive and violent decade of recent Irish history, 1912–1923, needs to be confronted. In that decade, there were several conflicts: between Protestant unionists and Catholic nationalists, between nationalist insurrection and British forces, and between two nationalist groups. At the end of the decade, the country was partitioned: the south had become an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth, while the north continued as part of the United Kingdom.

The division was bitter and violent, with each community (nationalist and unionist) effectively rejecting the right of the other to exist. That remained unchanged until the violence in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. While the vast majority on both sides want peace and mutual recognition, the traditional construction of each community’s historical memories obstruct that. The goal of the book is to analyse the different elements required for each community in how to confront that history in the interests of affirming identity, giving recognition to the other community and building a shared political community.

The 1998 Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement established power-sharing arrangements between the two divided communities in Northern Ireland. The Agreement is not set in stone but is rather a hopeful yet uncertain project. Making it put down deep cultural roots requires some confrontation with and transformation of the history, and the socially constructed memories, of Ireland’s decisive decade 1912–1923, which was violent and divisive.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
246
ISBN-13:
9781839991103
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1839991100
Udg. Dato:
10 sep 2024
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
237mm
Højde:
159mm
Forlag:
Anthem Press
Oplagsdato:
10 sep 2024
Forfatter(e):
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