The Politics of Antagonism: Understanding Northern Ireland, by Brenda O'Leary and John McGarry

Auditing the antagonism the colonial roots of antagonism - fateful triangles in Ulster, Ireland and Britain 1609-1920 exercising control - the second Protestant ascendancy 1920-1962 losing control - the collapse of the Unionist regime 1963-72 deadlock 1972-85 - the limits to British arbitration the making and meaning(s) of the Anglo-Irish Agreement 1985-9 - the limits to coercive consociationalism transcending antagonism? Resolving Northern Ireland in 1990s epilogue - the Brooke initiative and after, 1990- postscript - a tract of time between war and peace.