The Routledge Handbook of the Northern Ireland Conflict and Peace

With an extensive introduction, preface and 45 individual chapters, this volume represents an ambitious, expansive, interdisciplinary engagement with the North of Ireland through society, conflict and peace from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches.

Laura McAtackney is Professor in Archaeology at the Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork, Ireland, and Professor in Heritage Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. She uses contemporary archaeological approaches to understand difficult recent pasts including the Northern Irish conflict and peace process, gendered institutions and colonial legacies. She is the author of An Archaeology of the Troubles: The Dark Heritage of Long Kesh/Maze (2014).

Máirtín Ó Catháin is Senior Lecturer in Modern Irish History at the University of Central Lancashire. He has also worked for the Workers’ Educational Association and Ulster People’s College in Northern Ireland in the past and has specific interests in local labour and social history, oral history, and everyday life approaches to the Northern Irish conflict and peace process.