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11. Combating Terrorism in Northern Ireland

    Edited by James Dingley

    Series: Political Violence

    This edited book analyses the lessons which can be drawn from Northern Ireland’s experiences of combating terrorism. The essays in this volume unite analysis and practice in exploring both the conflict in Northern Ireland and the internationally applicable counter-terrorism lessons which can be...

    Published October 12th 2008 by Routledge
12. Emigrant Players

    Sport and the Irish Diaspora

    Edited by Paul Darby, David Hassan

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    Ireland and its inhabitants have often been described as being ‘sports mad’. As a relatively small geographical entity, Ireland, north and south, has produced a disproportionately high number of world class sports men and women who have excelled at the highest levels of their chosen sport. The...

    Published June 24th 2008 by Routledge
13. Recognition, Equality and Democracy

    Theoretical Perspectives on Irish Politics

    Edited by Jurgen De Wispelaere, Cillian McBride, Shane O’Neill

    This volume brings together a range of theoretical responses to issues in Irish politics. Its organising ideas: recognition, equality, and democracy set the terms of political debate within both jurisdictions. For some, there are significant tensions between the grammar of recognition, concerned...

    Published April 24th 2008 by Routledge
14. Irish Political Studies Reader

    Key Contributions

    Edited by Conor McGrath, Eoin O'Malley

    This is an introduction to the best available scholarship within Irish politics, featuring the most influential and significant articles which have been published on Irish politics during the past twenty years. Each article is accompanied by a new commentary by another leading scholar which...

    Published October 10th 2007 by Routledge
15. Intervening in Northern Ireland

    Critically Re-thinking Representations of the Conflict

    Edited by Marysia Zalewski, John Barry

    The articles in this special issue, drawn from a workshop hosted by the Institute of Governance, Queen’s University, Belfast, explicitly engage with and challenge conventional academic analyses in order to confront the ways in which the conflict on Northern Ireland has traditionally been...

    Published September 5th 2007 by Routledge
16. The IRA and Armed Struggle

    By Rogelio Alonso

    Series: Political Violence

    The IRA is one of the oldest terrorist organizations in the world and conducted a ferociously violent campaign for almost thirty years. Now deeply enmeshed in the Northern Ireland peace process, Rogelio Alonso asks why one of the bloodiest terrorist movements of our time decide to swap weapons for...

    Published December 13th 2006 by Routledge
17. The Politics of Northern Ireland

    Beyond the Belfast Agreement

    By Arthur Aughey

    In this book, one of the leading authorities on contemporary Northern Ireland politics provides an original, sophisticated and innovative examination of the post-Belfast agreement political landscape. Written in a fluid, witty and accessible style, this book explores: how the Belfast Agreement has...

    Published February 9th 2005 by Routledge
18. New Sinn Féin

    Irish Republicanism in the Twenty-First Century

    By Agnès Maillot

    As a consequence of Sinn Féin's connection with the IRA, the military side of the republican movement has tended to overshadow the political, both in terms of its internal operation and strategic choices and in terms of the attention that it has attracted from scholars, writers and journalists....

    Published October 24th 2004 by Routledge
19. Politics in the Republic of Ireland

    4th Edition

    By John Coakley, Michael Gallagher

    Edited by John Coakley, Michael Gallagher

    Politics in the Republic of Ireland is now available in a fully revised fourth edition. Building on the success of the previous three editions, this text continues to provide an authoritative introduction to all aspects of politics in the Republic of Ireland. Written by some of the foremost experts...

    Published September 29th 2004 by Routledge
20. Irish Political Studies Data Yearbook 2002

    Edited by Karin Gilland, Fiachra Kennedy

    This is an annual register of core political data covering the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. This yearbook constitutes an important time series of data on Irish politics that includes members of governments, state of the parties in parliament, parliamentary committees and all election...

    Published August 29th 2003 by Routledge