This outstandingly successful work of reference is now brought up to
date to mark the hoped-for end of the Northern Ireland Troubles. The
book is a detailed account, in diary form, of the thirty-year
development of civil and political unrest in Northern Ireland. It also
contains a number of short essays that look back at the major events of
the last thirty years, assessing their significance and setting them in
context. Among these are: Bloody Sunday (1972), the collapse of the
Power Sharing Executive (1974), the Republican hunger strikes (1981),
the Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985), the first I.R.A. cease-fire (1994) and
the historic Good Friday Agreement (1998). This chronology is the
essential guide to the politics and tragic events of the last thirty
years in Northern Ireland. It also includes comprehensive coverage of
the Peace Process.