With an extensive introduction, preface and 45 individual chapters, this volume represents an ambitious, expansive, interdisciplinary engagement with the North of Ireland through society, conflict and peace from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches.

Laura McAtackney is Professor in Archaeology at the Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork, Ireland, and Professor in Heritage Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. She uses contemporary archaeological approaches to understand difficult recent pasts including the Northern Irish conflict and peace process, gendered institutions and colonial legacies. She is the author of An Archaeology of the Troubles: The Dark Heritage of Long Kesh/Maze (2014).

Máirtín Ó Catháin is Senior Lecturer in Modern Irish History at the University of Central Lancashire. He has also worked for the Workers' Educational Association and Ulster People's College in Northern Ireland in the past and has specific interests in local labour and social history, oral history, and everyday life approaches to the Northern Irish conflict and peace process.

Introduction. Prologue. PART 1: Debates and controversies. 1. 'Rigorous impartiality'? The UK Government, Amnesties and Northern Ireland Conflict Legacy 1998-2022 2. 'The cutting edge of the IRA': the armed struggle North and South of the Border 3. Collusion 4. 'Getting beyond No': Ulster loyalist political thought during the Troubles 5. Political Memoir-writing and Personal Narratives: Researching the Conflictual past in Northern Ireland 6. Gender and class in Progressive Loyalism 7. Northern Ireland: still a place apart? PART 2: Environment and the everyday 8. 'The writing on the wall': the myths of Free Derry, 1968-72 9. 'Everything was concrete: the everyday impacts of planning and urban redevelopment policy before and during the Troubles 10. The Troubles, emigration to Britain and transnational memories of conflict 11. How economists have interpreted the Troubles 12. Writing the intersections: representing gender and class in 'Troubles' fiction 13. Reconsidering children's experiences of the conflict in Northern Ireland PART 3: Events and personalities. 14. 'Fidel Castro in a mini-skirt' or 'St Joan of the Barricades'?: Versions of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey 15. The strategic transformation of Provisional Irish Republicanism, c. 1979-1998 16. John Hume and his ideas 17. Catholic bishops and priests, internationalism and the conflict in Northern Ireland: the links to Germany 18. Splattered Tunic: Trade Unions in the Northern Ireland Conflict, 1968-1998 19. Long Kesh / Maze prison: gender, memory and visuality 20. The Politics of Gender in the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition PART 4: Strategies and aftermath. 21.'Dissident' Irish republicanism: keeping the flame alive 22. Policing and peace in Northern Ireland: Change, conflict and community confidence 23. Everyday Architectures and Spaces of Territory and Division 24. Sinn Féin and the IRA Narrative 25. Reconciliation and 'Whataboutery' in Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland 26. Beyond Simple Binaries? Reflecting on Immigrants' Experiences in Northern Ireland 27. Politics, Homophobia and the Socio-Legal evolution of LGBTQ+ Communities in Northern Ireland. PART 5: Reflective practice. 28. Where am I? Unsettling encounters in researching memory, subjectivity and conflict transformation after the Northern Irish Troubles 29. Photography and the Northern Irish Conflict: a short history 30. Meeting place 31. Curating the Troubles legacy: 'Art can tread where words and politics often can't' 32. Journalism in Troubled Times 33. Northern Protestants' Irish ghost limb. PART 6: Heritage and Memory. 34. The Challenge of Change: Museum Practice Informed by and Informing the Peace Process 35. The evolution of heritage and memory in a divided society 36. Exhibiting the Troubles: How museums claims space in the landscape of post-conflict societies 37. Emblems of the Peace Process: Conflict-Related Artefacts in Northern Ireland's Heritage Sector 38. Commemorating Conflict in the Paramilitary Museum 39. Materializing conflict and peace: presences and absences from the recent past in the North of Ireland. PART 7: Creative responses. 40. Things Don't Seem Right: the affective and institutional politics of writing about the North of Ireland from the North of England. 41. From Trauma to Promise? The state of Northern Ireland in Post-Agreement Drama 42. Centering the home in the study of conflict: domestic space, memory and the Troubles 43. Staging Ground: Temporality and Site-Specificity at Ebrington Barracks 44. Religious women and the Troubles: an oral history 45. A ghost estate and an empty grave: the O'Dowd murders and their aftermath.