‘This is my truth, tell me yours’: lived experiences and the Northern Ireland conflict

Scholarly and public interest in Northern Ireland's conflict shows no sign of abating.In recent years, we have seen a resurgence in academic tomes about the conflict and the parties to it, 1 books which explore aspects of life during the conflict, including the experiences of minoritised groups or previously marginal voices, 2 and popular journalistic and biographical accounts about controversial events and key figures.3 The volumes reviewed here are diverse in their topics and scope, but largely fit into the first categorythat is, they are books about the conflict or its aftermath.Yet, following trends in some of this later work, they are united in centring 'lived experiences' in the subjects they explore.4 Whilst this offers significant opportunities for innovation, there may be * The phrase is attributed to Aneurin Bevan (possibly a misquotation of Nietzsche).