The contributions to this book challenge much conventional understanding of a number of important issues relating the Troubles.
These include: the genesis and establishment of a functioning government in Northern Ireland in the context of Ireland\'s turbulent post-1916 revolutionary period; claims of systematic unionist discrimination in housing and employment and the origins of the Northern Ireland civil rights movement; the ideology of Irish Nationalism particularly its traditional sectar.
The contributions to this book challenge much conventional understanding of a number of important issues relating the Troubles