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A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume III - Consociation and Confederation (Hardcover)
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A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume III - Consociation and Confederation (Hardcover)
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The Good Friday Agreement deserved the attention the world gave it,
even if it was not always accurately understood. After its
ratification in two referendums, for the first time in history
political institutions throughout the island of Ireland rested upon
the freely given assent of majorities of all the peoples on the
island. It marked, it was hoped, the full political decolonization
of Ireland. Whether Ireland would reunify, or whether Northern
Ireland remain in union with Great Britain now rested on the will
of the people of Ireland, North and South respectively: a complex
mode of power-sharing addressed the self-determination dispute. The
concluding volume of Brendan O'Leary's A Treatise on Northern
Ireland explains the making of this settlement, and the many failed
initiatives that preceded it under British direct rule. Long-term
structural and institutional changes and short-term political
maneuvers are given their due in this lively but comprehensive
assessment. The Anglo-Irish Agreement is identified as the
political tipping point, itself partially the outcome of the hunger
strikes of 1980-81 that had prevented the criminalization of
republicanism. Until 2016 the prudent judgment seemed to be that
the Good Friday Agreement had broadly worked, eventually enabling
Sinn Fein and the DUP to share power, with intermittent attention
from the sovereign governments. Cultural Catholics appeared content
if not in love with the Union with Great Britain. But the decision
to hold a referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union
has collaterally damaged and destabilized the Good Friday
Agreement. That, in turn, has shaped the UK's tortured exit
negotiations with the European Union. In appraising these recent
events and assessing possible futures, readers will find O'Leary's
distinctive angle of vision clear, sharp, unsentimental, and
unsparing of reputations, in keeping with the mastery of the
historical panoramas displayed throughout this treatise.
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