The destructors
Subtitle: the story of Northern Ireland's lost peace process
By: Michael Kerr
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Dublin; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780716530985; 9780716530992
Subjects: Politics and government; Nordirlandkonflikt; Peace-building; Friedensbemühung; General Strike, Northern Ireland, 1974; History
Description: Looks at what the idea of power-sharing meant to the different parties to the Northern Ireland conflict and examines the effects when Britain's policy of using power-sharing to regulate the troubles was abandoned in 1974.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-333) and index.
Table of contents: title: Direct rule. Bringing it all back home ; Breaking the mould ; The Whitelaw Settlement ; A salesman for Sunningdale; title: The power-sharing executive. Hands across the border ; The other end of the bridge ; The wildcats strike ; The triumph of the destructors; title: Majority report. Responsibility without power ; No direction home.