Why read The Long Peace Process?

Book cover of The Long Peace Process: The United States of America and Northern Ireland, 1960-2008

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This book examines the role of the United States of America in the Northern Ireland conflict and peace process. It begins by looking at how US figures engaged with Northern Ireland, as well as the wider issue of Irish partition, in the years before the outbreak of what became known…

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1 author picked The Long Peace Process as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Michael Tubridy

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For the longest time, I have wanted to better comprehend the winding and complex years-long road to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, the multi-party accord, which, with the US government serving as an international peace broker, ended decades of sectarian and state violence at the end of Paul O’Dwyer’s life.

This lucid and objective scholarly account helped me grasp how O’Dwyer and a cadre of fellow grassroots organizers managed in 1992 to elicit a public vow from Bill Clinton to appoint a US envoy to Northern Ireland, with Clinton making good on the promise during his presidency.

From Michael's list on Irish-American rebel attorney Paul O’Dwyer.