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Northern Ireland Peace Talks: Endgames, Padraig O'Malley
Northern Ireland Peace Talks: Endgames, Padraig O'Malley
John M. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies Publications
With days to go before the Northern Ireland peace talks come to a formal close, things are, to use the immortal words ofFluther in Sean O'Casey's play, The Plough and Stars, "in a state of chasis."
Months of interminable bickering, the unwillingness of some parties to directly talk with others, a process in which it often appears that the key players spend more time trying to get one another thrown out of the process than with trying to bring those who are outside in, the insidious slide to more volatile sectarianism as armed extremists on both sides take random …