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Since the Good Friday Agreement, Northern Ireland seems changed almost beyond recognition. Violent incidents that were once commonplace are now rare and a younger generation has emerged with identities and interests more fluid and cosmopolitan than their parents. At the same time, however, the region remains in the long shadow of its recent turbulent history. The marginalisation of those who were victims, and indeed agents, of violence proves emblematic of a society still unable to deal with the traumas of the past.

Northern Ireland a generation after Good Friday

seeks to capture the complex and often contradictory realities of the region's peace process. Across nine original essays, the authors provide a critical and comprehensive reading of a society that seems to have left its violent past behind but at the same time remains subject to its gravitational pull.

Authors:

Colin Coulter is Professor of Sociology at Maynooth University

Niall Gilmartin is Lecturer in Sociology at Ulster University

Katy Hayward is Professor of Political Sociology at Queen's University Belfast

Peter Shirlow is Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool