Book Launch
No Alibis Bookstore, Belfast
Thursday 24th January, 5.30pm
‘Memories, Politics & Identity – Haunted by History’
By Cillian McGrattan
‘Everyday Life after the Irish Conflict – The Impact of Devolution & Cross Border Cooperation’
Edited by Cillian McGrattan and Elizabeth Meehan
As Northern Ireland enters a decade of commemorations this book will be a major resource for all those interested in the politics and history of memory. Cillian McGrattan makes a frontal assault on the shibboleths of ‘truth recovery’ in Northern Ireland charging its political and academic proponents with reproducing and legitimising the self-justifying narratives of loyalist and republican ex-paramilitaries. Using a wide range of sources from party archives and interviews to drama and film he argues that the peace process has been based on entrenching ethnic narratives which deny the sordid and murderous history visited upon the thousands of victims by the IRA and its loyalist counterparts.
Henry Patterson
Professor of Politics, University of Ulster, UK.
Institute for British-Irish Studies
School of Politics and International Relations
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University College Dublin
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Ireland
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