ABSTRACT

This is an introduction to the best available scholarship within Irish politics, featuring the most influential and significant articles which have been published on Irish politics during the past twenty years.

Each article is accompanied by a new commentary by another leading scholar which addresses the impact and contribution of the article and discusses how its themes remain crucial today. The book covers all the most important topics within Irish politics including political culture and traditions, political institutions and parties and the peace process.

The combination of the best original scholarship and contemporary commentaries on the core political issues makes Irish Political Studies Reader an invaluable resource for all students and scholars of Irish politics.

chapter 1|11 pages

Introduction

Politics in Ireland, 1982—2007

part One|181 pages

Political culture and traditions

chapter 3|20 pages

Strokes, cute hoors and sneaking regarders

The influence of local culture on Irish political style

chapter 5|15 pages

A state of exception

The concept of the political in Northern Ireland 1

chapter 8|26 pages

Modern Irish republicanism

The product of British state strategies

part Two|190 pages

Electoral politics and political institutions

chapter 12|28 pages

Transformation with a small 't'

Candidates for the Dáil, 1948–82 1

chapter 14|20 pages

The Northern Ireland political process

A viable approach to conflict resolution?

chapter 15|24 pages

Who voted for peace?

Public support for the 1998 Northern Ireland Agreement 1

chapter 16|17 pages

Devolution and the diffusion of power

The internal and transnational dimensions of the Belfast Agreement 1

chapter 17|20 pages

The North

Party images and party approaches in the Republic 1