Book Review: Northern Ireland a generation after Good Friday: lost futures and new horizons in the ‘long peace’ by Colin Coulter, Niall Gilmartin, Katy Hayward, and Peter Shirlow

Abstract

Nearly a quarter of a century after the signing of the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement, Northern Ireland (NI) remains the poster child for those studying and embarking on soci-etal transitions from con fl ict to peace. However, those who live in the region would be hard-pressed to identify the cyclical absence of government, ongoing deprivation, and an increasing rise in sectarian, racial, and gender-based violence with a successful peace transition. Northern Ireland a generation after Good Friday takes a critical approach to the liberal peace-building narrative, multi-faceted but connected understanding of contemporary Northern Irish society