Northern Ireland since 1945 Book

	List of Tables
	List of Maps
	Abbreviations and Acknowledgements
	Editorial Foreword
	Preface
	Preface to the Second Edition
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	1921-1939: The Roots of the Problem	7
1	The Constitutional Compromise	11
2	Economy and Society	19
	The economy	19
	Society	26
Pt. II	1940-1968: The Limits of Modernisation	37
3	The Welfare State	43
4	The Fifties: Social Change and Political Stagnation	55
	The economy	56
	The ruling classes: government, parties and population	66
	The minority population	75
5	The Sixties: O'Neillism and its Failure	84
	O'Neill and his policies	85
	Loyalist opposition to O'Neill	92
	The catholic response	99
	1968-69: Too little too late, too much too soon?	107
Pt. III	1969-1998: The Problem Exposed	115
6	The Last Years of Unionist Government, 1969-1972	119
	Civil rights, People's Democracy and socialism	127
	The revival, split and growth of the IRA	132
	Protestant militants and extremists	137
	The army and British politics	142
	Constitutional nationalism and Dublin's policies	147
	Chichester-Clark and Faulkner: fighting for survival	153
7	Stormont Suspended: The Search for New Forms of Government	160
	Wooing the unionists: from Direct Rule to Sunningdale	162
	The power-sharing executive and the Ulster Workers' strike	165
	The war of the paramilitaries	168
	The 'troubles' and the people: a society under stress?	172
	Unionism divided	175
8	The Eighties: Political Stalemate and Vested Interests	179
	Economic and social conditions	180
	Paramilitary initiatives: the H-Block protest and the Hunger Strike	186
	British initiatives: from the Northern Ireland Assembly to the Anglo-Irish Agreement	191
	Living with the Anglo-Irish Agreement: regional politics	197
9	The Nineties: From the Anglo-Irish Agreement to the 'Peace Process' - The Problem Accommodated?	204
	Political developments: the talks process	206
	Economy and society	218
	The nationalist camp	223
	British policies	229
	Unionist responses	234
	Bibliography	240
	Tables	250
	Maps	259
	Index	263