Brooke / Mayhew Talks - A Selected Reading List

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Text: Brendan Lynn

See also: Sean Farren Papers - Brook / Mayhew Talks

Key Texts:

Arthur, Paul. (2000), Special Relationships : Britain, Ireland and the Northern Ireland Problem. Belfast: Blackstaff Press.

Bloomfield, David. (1998), Political Dialogue in Northern Ireland: The Brooke Initiative, 1989-92. Basingstoke: Macmillan.

Bloomfield, David. (2001), Developing Dialogue in Northern Ireland: The Mayhew Talks, 1992. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Cochrane, Feargal. (2001), 'Ulster Unionism in the 1990's: The Talking Begins', from 'Unionist Politics and the Politics of Unionism since the Anglo-Irish Agreement'. Cork: Cork University Press.

Hennessey, Thomas. (2000), The Northern Ireland Peace Process: Ending the Troubles?. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan.

Murray, Gerard.(1998), John Hume and the SDLP: Impact and Survival in Northern Ireland. Dublin: Irish Academic Press.


General Reference Texts:

Bardon, Jonathan. (1992) A History of Ulster. Belfast: Blackstaff Press.
Bew, Paul., and Gillespie, Gordon. (1999) Northern Ireland: A Chronology of the Troubles 1968-1999. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.
Coogan, Tim Pat. (1995) The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal 1966-1996 and the Search for Peace. London: Hutchinson.
Elliott, Sydney., and Flakes, W.D. (1999) Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-1999 Belfast: Blackstaff Press.
McKittrick, David. (2000) Making Sense of the Troubles. Belfast: Blackstaff Press.
McKittrick, David., Kelters, Seamus., Feeney, Brian., and Thornton, Chris. (1999) Lost Lives: The stories of the men, women and children who died as a result of the Northern Ireland troubles. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing.
Sutton, Malcolm. (1994) An Index of Deaths from the Conflict in Ireland 1969-1993. Belfast: Beyond the Pale. [See also the revised and updatedSutton Index of Deaths.]


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