Identity in Northern Ireland : Communities, Politics and Change

This study provides an account of communal identity in Northern Ireland, focusing on the possibilities for change created by the twin dynamics of European integration and the Anglo-Irish political process.

These dynamics share a conceptual foundation, based on the representation of difference, that undermines the established norms of modern politics.

The author argues that such a shift in conditions and concepts has major implications for Northern Irish Nationalist and Ulster Unionist identities.