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(1999) <a href="/issues/politics/elliott99.htm">Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-1999</a>. Belfast: Blackstaff Press.<BR> </P> <h3>General</h3> <P> Arthur, Paul. (2000) <a href="/issues/politics/docs/arthur00.htm">Special Relationships : Britain, Ireland and the Northern Ireland Problem</a>. Belfast: Blackstaff Press.</P> <P>Aughey, Arthur., and Morrow, Duncan. (eds.) (1996) <a href="/othelem/media/bairner.htm">Northern Ireland Politics</a>. Harlow: Longman.</P> <P>Connolly, Michael E H. (1990) <a href="/issues/politics/docs/connolly.htm">Politics and Policy Making in Northern Ireland</a>. Hemel Hempstead: Philip Allen.</P> <P>Cunningham, Michael J. (2001) British Government Policy in Northern Ireland, 1969-2000. Manchester: Manchester University Press.</P> <P>McEvoy, Joanne. (2008). <a href="/issues/politics/docs/mcevoy08.htm">Towards Rrestored Devolution</a>, in, The Politics of Northern Ireland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.</P> <P>McGarry, John., and O'Leary, Brendan. (1995) Explaining Northern Ireland. Oxford: Blackwell.</P> <P>Mitchell, Paul., and Wilford, Rick (eds.) (1999) Politics in Northern Ireland. Oxford: Westview Press.</P> <P>Purdie, Bob. (1990) <a href="/events/crights/purdie.htm">Politics in the Streets: The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland</a>. Belfast: Blackstaff Press.</P> <P>Townshend, Charles. (ed.) (1988) Consensus in Ireland: Approaches and Recessions. Oxford: Clarendon Press.</P> <P>Whyte, John. (1991) Interpreting Northern Ireland. Oxford: Clarendon Press.<BR> </P> <h3>Political Parties</h3> <P> Adams, Gerry. (2001) Before The Dawn: An Autobiography. Dingle: Brandon.</P> <P>Bruce, Steve. (1986) God Save Ulster! The Religion and Politics of Paisleyism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.</P> <P>Bruce, Steve. (1994) The Edge of the Union: The Ulster Loyalist Political Vision. Oxford: Oxford University Press.</P> <P>Cochrane, Feargal. (2001) <a href="/issues/politics/union/fcchap2.htm">Unionist Politics and the Politics of Unionism since the Anglo-Irish Agreement</a>. Cork: Cork University Press.</P> <P>English, Richard., and Walker, Graham. (1996) Unionism in Modern Ireland: New Perspectives on Politics and Culture. Basingstoke: Macmillan.</P> <P>Harbinson, John F. (1973) The Ulster Unionist Party, 1882-1973: Its Development and Organisation. Belfast: Blackstaff.</P> <P>Mulholland, Marc. (1999) Northern Ireland at the Crossroads: Ulster Unionism in the O'Neill years, 1960-9. New York: St Martins Press.</P> <P>Murray, Gerard. (1998) <a href="/events/peace/murray98/index.html">John Hume and the SDLP: Impact and Survival in Northern Ireland</a>. Dublin: Irish Academic Press.</P> <P>McAllister, Ian. (1977) The Northern Ireland Social Democratic and Labour Party. London: Macmillan.</P> <P>O'Brien, Brendan. (1999) The Long War: The IRA and Sinn Fein (2nd ed.). Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.</P> <P>Patterson, H. (1989) The Politics of Illusion: Republicanism and Socialism in Modern Ireland. London: Hutchinson Radius.</P> <P>Smyth, Clifford. (1987) Ian Paisley: Voice of Protestant Ulster. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press.<BR> </P> <h3>Northern Ireland Peace Process</h3> <P> Cox, Michael., Guelke, Adrian., and Stephen, Fiona. (Eds.) (2000) A farewell to arms?: From 'long war' to long peace in Northern Ireland. Manchester: Manchester University Press.</P> <P>Mallie, Eamonn., and McKittrick, David. (1996) The Fight for Peace: The Secret Story Behind the Irish Peace Process. London: Heinemann.</P> <P>Hennessey, Thomas. (2000) The Northern Ireland Peace Process: Ending the Troubles?. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.</P> <P>Mitchell, George. (1999) Making Peace: The inside story of the making of the Good Friday Agreement. London: William Heinemann.</P> <P>Mac Ginty, Roger., and Darby, John. (2002) Guns and Government: The Management of the Northern Ireland Peace Process. Basingstoke: Palgrave. <BR> </P> <p> </p> <h3>General Reference Texts</h3> <P> Bardon, Jonathan. (1992) A History of Ulster. Belfast: Blackstaff Press.<BR> Bew, Paul., and Gillespie, Gordon. (1999) Northern Ireland: A Chronology of the Troubles 1968-1999. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.<BR> Coogan, Tim Pat. (1995) The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal 1966-1996 and the Search for Peace. London: Hutchinson.<BR> Elliott, Sydney., and Flakes, W.D. (1999) <a href="/issues/politics/elliott99.htm">Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-1999</a>. Belfast: Blackstaff Press.<BR> McKittrick, David. (2000) <a href="/events/directrule/mckittrick00.htm">Making Sense of the Troubles</a>. Belfast: Blackstaff Press.<BR> McKittrick, David., Kelters, Seamus., Feeney, Brian., and Thornton, Chris. (1999) <a href="/issues/violence/mckittrick.htm">Lost Lives: The stories of the men, women and children who died as a result of the Northern Ireland troubles</a>. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing.<BR> Sutton, Malcolm. (1994) <a href="/sutton/book/index.html">An Index of Deaths from the Conflict in Ireland 1969-1993</a>. 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