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Northern Ireland - From Conflict to Peace - Books dealing with the history of the Irish 'Troubles' and the roots of violence in the North of Ireland, and on the peace process, and peace initiatives.

Related categories: Peace & Human Rights / Ireland, Scotland & Wales /
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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 13 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland by Peter Taylor
    Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland - by Peter Taylor

    £22.00   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526659637 | ISBN 10: 1526659638

    On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Taylor tells for the first time the gripping story of Operation Chiffon, the top-secret intelligence operation that helped bring peace to Ireland.  'A gripping exploration of how MI5 ... more

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  • Cover image of book United Ireland: Why Unification is Inevitable and How it Will Come About by Kevin Meagher
    United Ireland: Why Unification is Inevitable and How it Will Come About - by Kevin Meagher

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781785906657 | ISBN 10: 1785906658

    For over two centuries, the ‘Irish Question’ has dogged British politics in one form or another – Northern Ireland’s ‘Troubles’ being perhaps the bloodiest manifestation. And although the past twenty years have seen intensive efforts to s ... more

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  • Cover image of book Where Grieving Begins: Building Bridges After the Brighton Bomb: A Memoir by Patrick Magee
    Where Grieving Begins: Building Bridges After the Brighton Bomb: A Memoir - by Patrick Magee

    £16.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780745341774 | ISBN 10: 0745341772

    An enduring peace is only possible through a genuine understanding of the past. To understand the Troubles is to set them in the context of the historical root causes of the conflict, in order to grapple with its pain and its horrors; to grieve and t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fifty Years On: The Troubles and the Struggle for Change in Northern Ireland by Malachi O
    Fifty Years On: The Troubles and the Struggle for Change in Northern Ireland - by Malachi O'Doherty

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786496669 | ISBN 10: 1786496666

    Fifty years ago, an eruption of armed violence traumatized Northern Ireland and transformed a period of street protest over civil rights into decades of paramilitary warfare by republicans and loyalists.  In this evocative memoir, Malachi O'Dohe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Backstop Land by Glenn Patterson
    Backstop Land - by Glenn Patterson

    £13.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781838932022 | ISBN 10: 183893202x

    Northern Ireland's frontier with the South has been an invisible line since the peace agreement of 1998. Now the battle over the UK's decision to leave the EU risks turning it into a hard border. Yet few people in the rest of Britain (or Ireland) kno ... more

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  • Cover image of book Reporting the Troubles: Journalists tell their stories of the Northern Ireland conflict by Deric Henderson and Ivan Little
    Reporting the Troubles: Journalists tell their stories of the Northern Ireland conflict - by Deric Henderson and Ivan Little

    £14.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781780731797 | ISBN 10: 1780731795

    In Reporting the Troubles sixty-eight renowned journalists tell their stories of working in Northern Ireland during the Troubles the victims that they have never forgotten, the events that have never left them, and the lasting impact of the experienc ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Place Apart: Northern Ireland in the 1970s by Dervla Murphy
    A Place Apart: Northern Ireland in the 1970s - by Dervla Murphy

    £13.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780600116 | ISBN 10: 1780600119

    At the height of The Troubles, Dervla Murphy bicycled to Northern Ireland to try to understand the situation by speaking to people on either side of the divide. She also sought to interrogate her own opinions and emotions. As an Irishwoman and travel ... more

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  • Cover image of book Making Sense of the Troubles (Revised & Updated) by David McKittrick & David McVea
    Making Sense of the Troubles (Revised & Updated) - by David McKittrick & David McVea

    £14.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780241962657 | ISBN 10: 024196265x

    Making Sense of the Troubles is David McKittrick and David McVea's classic history of the Troubles, now completely revised and updated. First published ten years ago, Making Sense of the Troubles is widely regarded as the most 'comprehensive, cons ... more

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  • Cover image of book Making Peace with the Past? Memory, Trauma and the Irish Troubles by Graham Dawson
    Making Peace with the Past? Memory, Trauma and the Irish Troubles - by Graham Dawson

    £19.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780719056727 | ISBN 10: 0719056721

    This book explores the psychic, cultural and political ramifications of memory within the Irish Troubles. It investigates the traumatic impact of the violence perpetrated since 1969; the antagonistic cultural narratives of memory fashioned and mobil ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Northern Ireland Peace Process and the International Context by Benjamin Williams
    The Northern Ireland Peace Process and the International Context - by Benjamin Williams

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781905809844 | ISBN 10: 1905809840

    "Northern Ireland is currently enjoying a period of relative peace and stability unprecedented for much of the past half century. Such stability is the product of a variety of factors that has created conditions whereby Northern Ireland now runs its ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Northern Ireland Conflict: A Beginner
    The Northern Ireland Conflict: A Beginner's Guide - by Aaron Edwards & Cillian McGrattan

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781851687299 | ISBN 10: 1851687297

    The Northern Ireland conflict is one of the most protracted, bitter, and complex campaigns of terrorism the Western world has ever seen. Since the watershed of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, the region has come a long way, finally achieving a har ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Troubles: Ireland
    The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal, 1969-96, and the Search for Peace - by Tim Pat Coogan

    £15.99   paperback   (1996) - ISBN 13: 9780099465713 | ISBN 10: 009946571x

    Tim Pat Coogan's classic and controversial study, now covering the collapse of the IRA ceasefire. 'A very fine, provocative and intelligent book. The Troubles will be the standard work on the period until events overtake its contents.'Irish Post ' ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dirty War by Martin Dillon
    The Dirty War - by Martin Dillon

    £9.99   paperback   (1991) - ISBN 13: 9780099845201 | ISBN 10: 0099845202

    1969 was a year of rising tension, violence and change for the people of Northern Ireland. Rioting in Derry's Bogside led to the deployment of British troops and a shortlived, uneasy truce. The British army soon found itself engaged in an undercover ... more

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