Sunningdale, the Ulster Workers' Council strike and the struggle for democracy in Northern Ireland (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Mccann, David; Mcgrattan, Cillian

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The 'Sunningdale experiment' of 1973-4 witnessed the first attempt to establish peace in Northern Ireland through power-sharing. However, its provisions, particularly the cross-border 'Council of Ireland', proved to be a step too far. The experiment floundered amid ongoing paramilitary-led violence, finally collapsing in May 1974 as a result of the Ulster Workers' Council strike. Drawing on new scholarship from some of the top political historians working on the period, this book presents a series of reflections on how key protagonists struggled with notions of power-sharing and the 'Irish dimension', and how those struggles inhibited a deepening of democracy and the ending of violence for so long.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Severn House
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526108395
• Artikelnr.: 48795070

Autorenporträt

David McCann is Lecturer in Politics at Ulster University Cillian McGrattan is Lecturer in Politics at Ulster University

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction and overview of the Sunningdale Agreement 1
Introduction David McCann and Cillian McGrattan 2 The Ulster Workers'
Council strike: the perfect storm Gordon Gillespie 3 Understanding
aspiration, anxiety, assumption and ambiguity: the anatomy of Sunningdale
Arthur Aughey Part II: The lessons of Sunningdale: the key protagonists 4
Sunningdale and the Irish dimension: a step too far? John Coakley 5 British
government policy post 1974: learning slowly between Sunningdales? Eamonn
O'Kane 6 British security policy and the Sunningdale Agreement: the
consequences of using force to combat terrorism in a liberal democracy
Aaron Edwards 7 Sunningdale and the limits of 'rejectionist' Unionism
Stuart Aveyard and Shaun McDaid 8 Stan Orme and the road to 'Industrial
Democracy': British attempts at the politicisation of working-class
Protestants in Northern Ireland, 1973-75 Tony Craig 9 Power sharing and the
Irish dimension: the conundrum for the SDLP in Northern Ireland Sarah
Campbell 10 '1974 - Year of Liberty'? The Provisional IRA and Sunningdale
Henry Patterson Part III: The legacies of Sunningdale 11 Cultural responses
to and the legacies of Sunningdale Connal Parr 12 'Slow learners'?
Comparing the Sunningdale Agreement and the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement
Thomas Hennessey Appendix: The Sunningdale Agreement (December 1973)
References Index