The historian A. T. Q. Stewart once remarked that in Ireland all
history is applied history-that is, the study of the past
prosecutes political conflict by other means. Indeed, nearly twenty
years after the 1998 Belfast Agreement, "dealing with the past"
remains near the top of the political agenda in Northern Ireland.
The essays in this volume, by leading experts in the fields of
Irish and British history, politics, and international studies,
explore the ways in which competing "social" or "collective
memories" of the Northern Ireland "Troubles" continue to shape the
post-conflict political landscape. The contributors to this volume
embrace a diversity of perspectives: the Provisional Republican
version of events, as well as that of its Official Republican
rival; Loyalist understandings of the recent past as well as the
British Army's authorized for-the-record account; the importance of
commemoration and memorialization to Irish Republican culture; and
the individual memory of one of the noncombatants swept up in the
conflict. Tightly specific, sharply focused, and rich in local
detail, these essays make a significant contribution to the
burgeoning literature of history and memory. The book will interest
students and scholars of Irish studies, contemporary British
history, memory studies, conflict resolution, and political
science. Contributors: Jim Smyth, Ian McBride, Ruan O'Donnell,
Aaron Edwards, James W. McAuley, Margaret O'Callaghan, John
Mulqueen, and Cathal Goan.
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