Growth and Political Violence in Northern Ireland, 1920–96

Vani Borooah

Chapter 14 in The Political Dimension of Economic Growth, 1998, pp 266-277 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract It is a sad comment on the state of our world that certain regions are generally perceived as being ‘theatres of war’. For the past quarter of a century, Northern Ireland has been such a region. Reviled by their countrymen, ignored by investors and shunned by tourists, the 1.5 million residents of Northern Ireland have had to bear the opprobrium of a violence which was perpetrated by only a handful of their number and towards which the vast majority of the province’s population, in common with the rest of the world, felt nothing but revulsion. Today, given the Irish Republican Army (IRA) cease-fire in July 1997, there is a reasonable prospect that this long nightmare may have ended and that ‘the Troubles’ (as the political violence in Northern Ireland is euphemistically termed) may be over. If so, then what prospect does this hold for economic welfare in Northern Ireland?

Keywords: Political Violence; British Government; Direct Rule; Unionist Party; Protestant Community (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-26284-7_14

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