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The 1998 Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement established power-sharing arrangements between the two divided communities in Northern Ireland. The Agreement is not set in stone but is rather a hopeful yet uncertain project. Making it put down deep cultural roots requires some confrontation with and transformation of the history, and the socially constructed memories, of Ireland’s decisive decade 1912–1923, which was violent and divisive.
‘Commemorations provoke the question of how and why violent events from the past might be celebrated. What are historians doing when they attempt to provide a truthful account of the past? Can there be an ethical evaluation of those events that respects the truth? Séamus Murphy’s excellent transdisciplinary approach shows how.’ — Dr Patrick Riordan, Senior Fellow in Political Philosophy and Catholic Social Thought, Campion Hall, University of Oxford, England
Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations and other Names; 1. Introduction; 2. Historians: Objectivity and Value; 3. L’homme Armé: Three Civil Conflicts; 4. Policy and Governance; 5. The Ethics of Social Memory; 6. Identity, Recognition, Politics; References; Index