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A Pre-Negotiation Guide To The Conflict In Northern Ireland, Padraig O'Malley
A Pre-Negotiation Guide To The Conflict In Northern Ireland, Padraig O'Malley
John M. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies Publications
On September 1, 1994, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) declared a ceasefire.
The declaration was potentially one of the most significant developments in Irish history since Ireland was partitioned in 1920. It represented, or at the time it seemed to represent, an acknowledgement by the IRA and its political wing, Sinn Fein, that Ireland cannot be united by physical force, that the armed struggle of the last twenty five years to drive the British out of Northern Ireland has not worked, that the strategy of "the Long War," based on the premise that if the IRA persisted in its campaign …