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Peace or Pacification?: Northern Ireland After The Defeat of the IRA

Peace or Pacification?: Northern Ireland After The Defeat of the IRA

by Liam Ó Ruairc
Peace or Pacification?: Northern Ireland After The Defeat of the IRA
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Peace or Pacification?: Northern Ireland After The Defeat of the IRA

Peace or Pacification?: Northern Ireland After The Defeat of the IRA

by Liam Ó Ruairc

Overview

Often the so-called 'Irish question' is reduced to one of ancestral hatreds, but this timely book following the revenant tensions borne out of Brexit negotiations grounds its study in the context of colonialism, anti-imperialism and liberation struggles. This study demonstrates that 'peace' might not be found in 'justice', and argues instead of a 'peace process' for a 'pacification process'.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781789041279
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 07/24/2019
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 5.46(w) x 8.59(h) x 0.42(d)

About the Author

Liam Ó Ruairc has a background in philosophy. He attended Queen's University Belfast to study Irish politics. Ó Ruairc is a member of the editorial board of Fourthwrite and of The Blanket: A Journal of Pro-test and Dissent which provided influential criticisms of the so-called Irish peace process as well as what has been called "a republican digital counter culture". His work has appeared in Fortnight magazine, History Ireland and Radical Philosophy as well as in many radical publications. He lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.

Table of Contents

Presentation 1

Part 1 Insular problem or universal cause?

Peace process 3

Truth or 'constructive ambiguity'? 4

Partition 7

Land of Habeas Corpus or state of exception? 13

'Troubles' or war? 16

An insular problem? 21

Colonial entropy 25

Republicanism and the universal 28

Conclusion 33

Endnotes 34

Part 2 The 'Process': one step forward or two steps backwards?

Self-determination as foundation of a lasting peace 45

Lines of political demarcation 48

Negotiations: parameters and preconditions 50

The 1993 Downing Street Declaration 51

The 1995 Framework Documents 53

The 1996 Mitchell Principles 54

Republicanising the process or de-republicanising Sinn Féein? 55

Belfast Agreement 57

Balanced constitutional changes? 58

Self-determination or limited form of co-determination? 60

Honourable compromise? 62

'Sunningdale for slow learners'? 65

Decommissioning 66

Troops out? 70

RUC disbanded? 72

Removal of emergency powers? 75

Prisoners release 78

Human rights 80

'Remarkable progress' or 'Back where we started in 1969'? 81

Movement is everything 82

Principles and tactics 83

Pragmatism or opportunism? 84

Conclusion 86

Endnotes 87

Part 3 'Peace': What 'Dividends'?

Peace dividends 97

Failed economic entity 98

Living conditions 100

Nationalists 'Part of the establishment as never before' 101

A 'cold house for Protestants'? 104

Privatised peace 105

A benign form of apartheid? 109

Victims industry and therapy culture 112

Inquiries, 'legacy issues' and the past 116

Conclusion 119

Endnotes 120

Part 4 Real Peace or Simulation of Peace?

Retreat from politics 129

The peace process in an age of austerity 131

Brexit 137

Six counties border poll or all-Ireland referendum? 141

The 'respectable minority': 'dissidents' and dissenters 147

Negative peace or peace with justice? 150

Strategic failure or new phase of the struggle? 153

Changing the question 157

Conclusion: 'Thought as the courage of hopelessness'? 160

Endnotes 163

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