The study of political memoir and the legacy of the conflict in Northern Ireland -- Provisional republican memoir-writing -- Departing the republican movement : memoir-writing and the politics of dissent -- Loyalist paramilitarism and the politics of memoir-writing -- Memoir-writing and moderation? Ulster unionists face the Troubles -- Northern nationalists and memoir-writing : the Social Democratic and Labour Party and the Troubles -- A case-study of memoir-writing and the elusive search for a political settlement : the 1974 power-sharing executive and Sunningdale -- British ministers and the politics of Northern Ireland : reading the political memoirs of Secretaries of State -- Journalists, the Northern Ireland 'Troubles' and the politics of memoir-writing -- Victims and memoir-writing : leaving the Troubles behind? -- Chroniclers of the conflict
Summary
This title examines memoir-writing by many of the key political actors in the Northern Irish troubles (1969-1998), and argues that memoir has been a neglected dimension of the study of the legacies of the violent conflict. It investigates these sources in the context of ongoing disputes over how to interpret Northern Ireland's recent past
