Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Contributors

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations and Irish terms

Chronology

Part I: Introduction and overview of the Sunningdale Agreement

1 Introduction

2 The Ulster Workers’ Council strike: the perfect storm

3 Understanding aspiration, anxiety, assumption and ambiguity: the anatomy of Sunningdale

Part II: The lessons of Sunningdale: the key protagonists

4 Sunningdale and the Irish dimension: a step too far?

5 British government policy post 1974: learning slowly between Sunningdales?

6 British security policy and the Sunningdale Agreement: the consequences of using force to combat terrorism in a liberal democrac

7 Sunningdale and the limits of ‘rejectionist’ Unionism

8 Stan Orme and the road to ‘Industrial Democracy’: British attempts at the politicisation of working-class Protestants in Northern Ireland, 1973–75

9 Power sharing and the Irish dimension: the conundrum for the SDLP in Northern Ireland

10 ‘1974 – Year of Liberty’? The Provisional IRA and Sunningdale

Part III: The legacies of Sunningdale

11 Cultural responses to and the legacies of Sunningdale

12 ‘Slow learners’? Comparing the Sunningdale Agreement and the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement

The Sunningdale Agreement (December 1973)

References

Index