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Northern Ireland’s Troubles: The Human Costs

Author(s): Marie Therese Fay, Mike Morrissey, Marie Smith

Virginia and Pluto Press, London and Stirling, 1999, pp. 229

Part I of this book sets out the context of the conflict in Northern Ireland, including a chronology of key events from the opening of the first Parliament there in 1921 to the Provisionl IRA ceasefire in September 1998, considers political, social and economic facets of the conflict, and reviews the principal interpretations of its causes. Part II examines the effects of the violence on individuals and groups and argues the need to address them if there is to be peace in the longer term.