Acknowledgements
1. The Study of Political Memoir and the Legacy of the Conflict in Northern Ireland
Introduction
The Politics of Memoir: Establishing the Parameters of Study
The Construction and Narration of Exemplary Lives
The History of an Individual's Soul: Truth and Memory in Life-Writing
2. Provisional Republican Memoir-Writing
Introduction
Becoming a Provo: Narratives of Belonging
Different Worlds of the Troubles: Locality and Internal Republican Politics
3. Departing the Republican Movement: Memoir-Writing and the Politics of Dissent
Introduction
Explaining the Break: Dissent or Disavowal?
4. Loyalist Paramilitarism and the Politics of Memoir-Writing
Introduction: A New Phenomenon?
A Line in the Sand? Authorial Motivation and Loyalist Paramilitary Memoir
A Confusion of Voices: Author and Subject in Loyalist Life-Writing
An Enclosed World? Localism and Loyalist Memoir-Writing Loyalists, Life-Writing and Motivation: Exploitation or
Reconciliation?
Conclusion
5. Memoir-Writing and Moderation? Ulster Unionists Face the Troubles
Introduction
Unionists and Reform: O'Neill and Narratives of Frustration
Reflections on Unionist Political Division: O'Neill and Faulkner
6 .Northern Nationalists and Memoir-Writing: The Social Democratic and Labour Party and the Troubles
Rejecting Republicanism?
A Paradigm Shift? Civil Rights and the Attitude to Unionism
The SDLP and the Troubles
7. A Case-Study of Memoir-Writing and the Elusive Search for a Political Settlement: The 1974 Power-Sharing Executive and
Sunningdale
Introduction
Hope and Hesitation
'A Government of All the Talents'
The Ulster Workers' Council Strike: 'A Nightmarish, Surreal Experience'
8. British Ministers and the Politics of Northern Ireland: Reading the Political Memoirs of Secretaries of State
Introduction
The Experience of Northern Ireland: Marginal or Central?
Welcome to Belfast, Minister! Appointing the Secretary of State
The 'Loneliness of the Northern Ireland Secretary': Reflecting on Policy-Making as SOSNI
Working with the Northern Irish Parties
Conclusion
9. Journalists, the Northern Ireland 'Troubles' and the Politics of Memoir-Writing
Introduction
My War Gone by, I Miss it so ...
'Blow-Ins' and Belfastmen
Forgive Us Our Press Passes: Political Space and Journalism
Confronting the Past: Distance and Denial
Telling the Story and Telling one's Story
Reflections on Reporting Political Violence
Conclusion
10. Victims and Memoir-Writing: Leaving the Troubles Behind?
Introduction
Insiders and Outsiders: The 'Different Worlds' of the Troubles
Memoir-Writing and the Question of Timing
Victims and Perpetrators: Towards Understanding?
Conclusion
11. Chroniclers of the Conflict
Notes and references
Bibliography
Index