Table of Contents

PART 1 1921-1939 THE ROOTS OF THE PROBLEM 1.The constitutional compromise 2. The economy; society - the Protestants - the Catholics PART 2 1940-1968 - THE LIMITS OF MODERNIZATION 3.The welfare state 4.The 50s - social change and political stagnation - the economy - the ruling classes - government, parties, and population - the minority population 5. The 60s - O'Neillism and its failure - O'Neill and his policies, loyalist opposition to O'Neill, the catholic response, 1968-9 - too little too late, too much too soon? PART 3 1969-1989 - THE PROBLEM EXPOSED 6. The last years of unionist government, 1969-1972 - civil rights, people's democracy and socialism; the revival, split and growth of the IRA; Protestant militants and extremists; the army and British politics; constitutional nationalism and Dublin's policies; Chichester-Clark and Faulkner - fighting for survival 7. Stormont suspended - the search for new forms of government - wooing the unionists - from direct rule to Sunningdale; the power-sharing executive and the Ulster Workers strike; the war of the paramilitaries "the troubles" and the people - a society under stress?; Unionism divided; the 80s - political stalemate and vested interests - economic and social conditions; paramilitary initiatives - the H-Block protest and the hunger-strike; British initiatives - from the Northern Ireland Assembly to the Anglo-Irish Agreement; living with the Anglo-Irish Agreement - regional politics.