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Shirlow 00 28/9/09 01:26 Page i Abandoning historical conflict? Shirlow 00 28/9/09 01:26 Page ii Shirlow 00 28/9/09 01:26 Page iii Abandoning historical conflict? Former political prisoners and reconciliation in Northern Ireland Peter Shirlow, Jonathan Tonge, James McAuley and Catherine McGlynn Manchester University Press Manchester and New York distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan Shirlow 00 28/9/09 01:26 Page iv Copyright © Peter Shirlow, Jonathan Tonge, James McAuley and Catherine McGlynn 2010 The right of Peter Shirlow, Jonathan Tonge, James McAuley and Catherine McGlynn to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Published byManchester University Press Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9NR, UK andRoom 400, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA Distributed exclusively in Canada by UBC Press, University of British Columbia, 2029 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z2 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Acatalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for ISBN 978 0 7190 8011 1 hardback First published 2010 The publisher has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or any third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not gurantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Typeset by Helen Skelton, Brighton, UK Printed in Great Britain by the MPG Books Group Shirlow 00 28/9/09 01:26 Page v Contents Acknowledgements pagevii List of abbreviations ix Introduction 1 1 Politically motivated prisoners in Northern Ireland 4 2 Former prisoners in a global context 23 3 Political views and understandings 45 4 Imprisonment, ideological development and change 69 5 Political and tactical change among former prisoners 91 6 Conflict transformation and changing perceptions of the ‘other’ 119 7 Former prisoners and societal reconstruction 142 Conclusion 164 Bibliography 173 Index 190 Shirlow 00 28/9/09 01:26 Page vi Shirlow 00 28/9/09 01:26 Page vii Acknowledgements The authors acknowledge with grateful thanks the generous financial assis- tance for this research project provided by the Leverhulme Trust. Weare also very grateful for the hard work and diligence of the project’s research assistants, Michael Culbert and Dawn Purvis MLA, in organising and conducting inter- views with republican and loyalist former prisoners respectively. The facilita- tion of the research by various former prisoners’ organisations, Coiste, EPIC, Charter and Teach na Failte, is also acknowledged with thanks. We pay tribute to the late Noel Gilzean, whose posthumous PhD, awarded in 2008, was richly earned. We thank all our families for tolerating our long absences during the research for this project. Finally,we offer our thanks to all the former prisoners whoparticipated, for their time and frankness in the articulation of their ideas. Shirlow 00 28/9/09 01:26 Page viii Shirlow 00 28/9/09 01:26 Page ix List of abbreviations AMODEG Mozambican Association of the War Demobilised ANC African National Congress AVT Association of Victims of Terrorism CIRA Continuity IRA CRJ Community Restorative Justice CTI Conflict Transformation Initiative DDR Demilitarisation, Demobilisation and Re-integration DUP Democratic Unionist Party EACTP East Antrim Conflict Transformation Process EPIC Ex-Prisoners’ Interpretive Centre ETA Euskadi TaAskatasuna EXPAC Ex-Prisoners Action Committee GAL Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberacion IICD Independent International Commission on Decommissioning INLA Irish National Liberation Army IPLO Irish People’sLiberation Organisation IRA Irish Republican Army IRSP Irish Republican Socialist Party LVF Loyalist Volunteer Force MLA Northern Ireland Assembly member NGO non-governmental organisation NIACRO Northern Ireland Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders NIO Northern Ireland Office NUPRG New Ulster Political Research Group ODC ‘Ordinary Decent Criminal’ OIRA Official IRA PIRA Provisional Irish Republican Army PNV Partido Nacionalista Vasco
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