Description
Book SynopsisA study of the long term historical background to the disputes over parades and related issues that remain central to conflict in Northern Ireland, linked to a review of current policy on the management of public space in the city and a discussion of options for the future. -- .
Trade Review'[...] this is an important and welcome book that effectively illuminates a continued way forward to a shared future by recalling a complex and all-but-forgotten past. Inconvenient to both sides of the city’s sectarian divide, that past reveals present-day political self-definitions to be the product of selective historical memory.'
Victorian Studies
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Table of ContentsIntroduction
Chapter 1 The origins of public space
Chapter 2 Lord Donegall’s town
Chapter 3 The making of a municipal culture
Chapter 4 Freedom and order
Chapter 5 Public space and civil conflict
Chapter 6 Public space and the Protestant state
Chapter 7 New directions? The 1960s
Chapter 8 Violence and carnival: renegotiating public space 1970-2008
Chapter 9 Shared space or divided future?
Conclusion Public space - past lessons and future strategies
Index
