Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-295) and index.
Contents
The development of nationalist politics in Northern Ireland -- Collapsing Stormont: politics and rebellion in the early 1970s -- The Sunningdale experiment -- Marginalisation, exclusion and rebirth: Republicanism, 1972-9 -- Ending political inertia: internationalisation of the Northern Ireland conflict -- The Republican second front: hunger strikes and ballot boxes -- Rescuing the SDLP: the New Ireland forum -- The Anglo-Irish agreement -- Republican reappraisal: the initiatives of Gerry Adams -- Towards peace, pan-nationalism and co-determination -- The Good Friday agreement: SDLP triumph? -- Triumph or sell-out? Sinn Féin and Constitutional Republicanism -- New Agendas? Nationalist social and economic policies.