Research Catalog

Title

Northern Ireland since 1945 / Sabine Wichert.

Author

Wichert, Sabine, 1942-

Publication

London ; New York : Longman, 1999.

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Details

Description

xv, 269 p. : maps; 22 cm.

Summary

This analysis of political, economic and cultural development in Northern Ireland between 1945 and 1999 has now been updated to include material on the peace process and the new Northern Ireland Assembly.

Series Statement

The Postwar world

Uniform Title

Postwar world

Subject

• Geschichte 1945-1998
• Since 1922
• World War, 1939-1945 > Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) > Influence
• Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) > History
• Northern Ireland > History > 1968-1998
• Ireland > History > 1922-

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-249) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. I. 1921-1939: The Roots of the Problem -- 1. The Constitutional Compromise -- 2. Economy and Society -- The economy -- Society -- Pt. II. 1940-1968: The Limits of Modernisation -- 3. The Welfare State -- 4. The Fifties: Social Change and Political Stagnation -- The economy -- The ruling classes: government, parties and population -- The minority population -- 5. The Sixties: O'Neillism and its Failure -- O'Neill and his policies -- Loyalist opposition to O'Neill -- The catholic response -- 1968-69: Too little too late, too much too soon? -- Pt. III. 1969-1998: The Problem Exposed -- 6. The Last Years of Unionist Government, 1969-1972 -- Civil rights, People's Democracy and socialism -- The revival, split and growth of the IRA -- Protestant militants and extremists -- The army and British politics -- Constitutional nationalism and Dublin's policies -- Chichester-Clark and Faulkner: fighting for survival -- 7. Stormont Suspended: The Search for New Forms of Government -- Wooing the unionists: from Direct Rule to Sunningdale -- The power-sharing executive and the Ulster Workers' strike -- The war of the paramilitaries -- The 'troubles' and the people: a society under stress? -- Unionism divided -- 8. The Eighties: Political Stalemate and Vested Interests -- Economic and social conditions -- Paramilitary initiatives: the H-Block protest and the Hunger Strike -- British initiatives: from the Northern Ireland Assembly to the Anglo-Irish Agreement -- Living with the Anglo-Irish Agreement: regional politics -- 9. The Nineties: From the Anglo-Irish Agreement to the 'Peace Process' -- The Problem Accommodated? -- Political developments: the talks process -- Economy and society -- The nationalist camp -- British policies -- Unionist responses.

ISBN

0582326788

LCCN

^^^99014758^

OCLC

• 41002679
• SCSB-10611234

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library