The Destructors: The Story of Northern Ireland's Lost Peace Process [Hardcover]

Michael Kerr (Author)

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Publication Date: Jun 14 2011 | ISBN-10: 0716530988 | ISBN-13: 978-0716530985

The Destructors is the story of lost opportunities. On New Year's Day, 1974, Northern Ireland's first Secretary of State, William Whitelaw, convinced unionist and nationalist leaders, such as Brian Faulkner and John Hume, to set aside irreconcilable differences and long-held principles and enter into a power-sharing government at Stormont. A few months later, the government collapsed, poisoned by factionalism. Taking a fresh and dynamic look at what the idea of power-sharing meant to the different parties to the Northern Ireland conflict, The Destructors examines how the Northern Ireland Executive was subsequently destroyed by an unconstitutional political strike that was called by the Ulster Workers' Council, in May 1974. And it details how the executive's fate was sealed when power-sharing was abandoned by Heath's successor, Harold Wilson, following an ill-timed Westminster general election in February. Drawing on previously unavailable British and Irish archival material, and over forty interviews with politicians and officials central to a peace process that led to an Anglo-Irish settlement at Sunningdale, in December 1973, Kerr re-examines why Northern Ireland's power-sharing experiment failed.

#outer_postBodyPS { display: none; } #psGradient { display: none; } #psPlaceHolder { display: none; } #psExpand { display: none; } The Destructors is the story of lost opportunities. On New Year's Day, 1974, Northern Ireland's first Secretary of State, William Whitelaw, convinced unionist and nationalist leaders, such as Brian Faulkner and John Hume, to set aside irreconcilable differences and long-held principles and enter into a power-sharing government at Stormont. A few months later, the government collapsed, poisoned by factionalism. Taking a fresh and dynamic look at what the idea of power-sharing meant to the different parties to the Northern Ireland conflict, The Destructors examines how the Northern Ireland Executive was subsequently destroyed by an unconstitutional political strike that was called by the Ulster Workers' Council, in May 1974. And it details how the executive's fate was sealed when power-sharing was abandoned by Heath's successor, Harold Wilson, following an ill-timed Westminster general election in February. Drawing on previously unavailable British and Irish archival material, and over forty interviews with politicians and officials central to a peace process that led to an Anglo-Irish settlement at Sunningdale, in December 1973, Kerr re-examines why Northern Ireland's power-sharing experiment failed.

Product Details

Hardcover: 348 pages
Publisher: Irish Academic Press (Jun 14 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0716530988
ISBN-13: 978-0716530985
Product Dimensions: 15.6 x 3.4 x 23.4 cm
Shipping Weight: 640 g

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About the Author

Dr Michael Kerr is Director of the Centre for the Study of Divided Societies at King's College London, where he is a Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies. He is the author of Imposing Power Sharing: Conflict and Co-Existence in Northern Ireland and Lebanon and Transforming Unionism: David Trimble and the 2005 General Election (both published by Irish Academic Press).