Don't Mention the War: Exploring Aspects of the Legacy of the Northern Ireland Troubles

Vicky Cosstick

ISBN 10: 1999366700 / ISBN 13: 9781999366704

Published by Neilsen, 2019

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• Title: Don't Mention the War: Exploring Aspects of the Legacy of the Northern Ireland Troubles
• Publisher: Neilsen
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1999366700
• ISBN 13: 9781999366704
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Duffy, Rita
• Condition: Brand New

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In Don’t Mention the War, Vicky Cosstick asks, what really has been the legacy of the Northern Ireland Troubles? She suggests that the widely understood concept of legacy excludes women’s experience, and that a sectarian focus has led to a failure to address the inequality of women in Northern Ireland. She argues that the extent of systemic and transgenerational trauma has been underestimated and has led to a blocked or frozen peace process. She claims that Brexit and the Tory/DUP confidence and supply arrangement have further weakened a peace process already inevitably vulnerable to flaws in the Good Friday Agreement. She suggests that the media in Britain and Northern Ireland have failed in their responsibility in a post-conflict situation to hold governments and politicians to account. Overall, in Don’t Mention the War, Vicky Cosstick explores how the systemic post-conflict reality in Northern Ireland is preventing progress towards reconciliation. Vicky Cosstick is the author of Belfast: Toward a City Without Walls (Colourpoint 2015). She has worked as a writer and journalist, academic, and organisational change consultant. She lives in East Sussex and Donegal, which she first visited in the late 70s, when she wrote her first article on the conflict for the New York Daily News.Vicky Cosstick worked in conversation with Rita Duffy, who facilitated a drawing workshop with the women of Unheard Voices (Chapter Two), designed and installed Arachne’s Web in Carnegie Oldpark Library, and produced four drawings for Chapters 2-5.