Public lecture series 2003 by Irish Studies Centre, ISC, London Metropolitan University, LMU

“…Yeats, Blake and Van Morrison'; a panel debate with Richard English, Fionnuala O'Connor and Martin O'Brien 'The Good Friday Agreement five years on'; and the Irish ambassador Dáithí O'Ceallaigh on 'Ireland: a changing society'. …”
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Public lecture series 2003 by Irish Studies Centre, ISC, London Metropolitan University, LMU

“…Yeats, Blake and Van Morrison'; a panel debate with Richard English, Fionnuala O'Connor and Martin O'Brien 'The Good Friday Agreement five years on'; and the Irish ambassador Dáithí O'Ceallaigh on 'Ireland: a changing society'. …”
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Mixité communautaire : cadre juridique d’un nouveau départ pour l’Irlande du Nord by Christian Mailhes

“…Signed on April 10, 1998, the Good Friday Agreement was intended to officialise the end to violence and offer a legal framework with a common aim which would bring together former enemies in a profoundly divided society. …”
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Représenter les Troubles. Du spectacle médiatique au cauchemar historique  by Brigitte Aubry

“…The Troubles: a euphemism that designates the violent conflict which started in Londonderry on the 5th October 1968 and which ended with Good Friday Agreement signed on the 10th April 1998 in Belfast. …”
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La transformation du mouvement républicain irlandais des années 1980 à la problématique posée par le Brexit by Yann Bévant

“…The growing participation of the movement to political processes and the acceptance of the Good Friday Agreement presided over a new pragmatic approach based on tolerance and inclusiveness epitomised by the association Coiste na nIarchimi. …”
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Consolidating peace: Rethinking the community relations model in Northern Ireland by Knox Colin, McCrory Seamus

“…This transition has involved funders at the European, regional and local levels investing in peace and reconciliation measures to consolidate political gains made since the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement in 1998. This paper examines the achievements made to date, the extent to which they have resulted in a peace dividend for those most impacted by the violence, and whether the focus of peace-building interventions should shift away from the traditional community relations model. …”
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Border Gothic - history, violence and the border in the writings of Eugene McCabe by Éamonn Ó Ciardha

“…As well as producing a rich body of novels, novellas, short-stories and plays spanning throughout seventy years of the century of partition, Eugene McCabe charts the broad trajectory of Irish history and politics from the Elizabethan Conquest and Ulster Plantation of the 16th and 17th centuries to the recent 'Troubles' which spanned the thirty years between the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement (1968) and the signing of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement (1998). They positively seethe with gruesome assassinations, indiscriminate bombings and deliberate shootings, while resonating with a veritable cacophony of deep-seeded ethnic rivalries and genocidal, religious hatreds, which are interlaced with poverty, social deprivation and dis-function, migration and emigration.…”
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American Diplomacy and Economic Aid in the Northern Ireland Peace Process: A Neoliberal Analysis by Timothy J. White

“…Basing my research on assumptions from neoliberal international relations theory, I argue that the US role in Northern Ireland, while not definitive in terms of achieving peace, was important in the complex pattern of mutual influence that made the Good Friday Agreement possible and then assisted in its implementation. …”
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Sinn Féin’s Tortuous Road to Power by Agnès Maillot

“…It has adopted, throughout the peace process, a newly-found enthusiasm for left-wing politics and for the institutions provided by the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, to which it is a signatory. …”
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Richard Bean’s The Big Fellah (2010) and Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman (2017): two plays about the Northern Troubles from outside of Northern Ireland by Hiroko Mikami

“…This article deals with two plays, Richard Bean’s The Big Fellah and Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman, neither of which was written by an Irish playwright and examines whether and to what extent it is possible to say that they can transcend regional boundaries and become part of global memories in the context of the post-Good Friday Agreement and the post 9.11.…”
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Northern Ireland: Devolution as an Electoral Issue in the 2015 UK General Election by Valérie Peyronel

“…The 2015 General Election in Northern Ireland was set in the particular context of the Stormont House Agreement, which was reached on December 23, 2014, in a renewed attempt to make devolution in Northern Ireland, as defined in the 1998 “Good Friday” Agreement, operate more smoothly. On top of tackling the inescapable issues of finance and welfare in a still sluggish post-financial crisis economic context, the Stormont House Agreement indeed addressed several dividing issues, such as flags, identity, culture and tradition, dealing with the past and institutional reform. …”
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Peace-walls, Flags, and Dark Passages by Maria McLintock

“…They are due to be removed by 2023, as part of commitments drawn out in the Good Friday Agreement; the 1998 accord that largely brought an end to the conflict. …”
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Planning a Dublin–Belfast Economic Corridor: Networks, engagement and creating opportunities by Magennis Eoin, Corrigan Jordana, Blair Neale, Broin Deiric Ó

“…The emergence of statutory North/South bodies after the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement of 1998 added a new dynamic. This paper argues that the further development of the Dublin–Belfast Economic Corridor will require key stakeholders to engage widely, not only with a private sector whose rationale will be greater levels of commercial activity along the Corridor but also with others who will bring additional agendas into discussion, including sustainability and quality of life. …”
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Between Troubles and Peace in Northern Ireland: Cinematic Divisions in Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast (2021) and Terry Loane’s Mickybo and Me (2004) by Paris-Popa Andreea

“…The Troubles officially ended with the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, but the conflict left such profound scars in the history of the region that making a film about Northern Ireland tends to almost automatically assume a discourse informed by division. …”
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Political Prisoners and the Irish Language: A North-South Comparison by Dieter Reinisch

“…One of the most important aspects for this development was the release of the Irish Republican prisoners following the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. In contrast to the North, although considered as the national language in the southern Republic of Ireland, the Irish language is further declining in the South. …”
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Introduction by Sandra Heinen, Sylvie Mikowski, Lance Pettitt, Katharina Rennhak

“…Following the agenda suggested by the short film-essay Hard Border (2018), directed by Juliet Riddell and performed by Stephen Rea, this themed issue of RISE approaches the Irish border by differentiating between internal and external – Irish and Northern Irish, British and continental – perspectives and by exploring historical dimensions as well as contemporary engagements with a border whose increasing (discursive and material) invisibility following the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement of 1998 has been crucial to the ongoing peace process.…”
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Changes in Northern Ireland Society and Factors in Favour of Reunification: Beyond Identity and Religion? by Galder Sierra

“…This paper summarises some of the main changes in Northern Irish society since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, both at the electoral level and in religious and national identities, as well as in preferences over constitutional future. …”
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The Representation and Overcoming of Perpetrator Trauma in Rachel Seiffert’s Afterwards by Paula Romo-Mayor

“…This controversial subject is conveyed through the stories of Joseph and David, two British ex-servicemen belonging to different generations, who attempt to overcome their war traumas years after their respective involvement in The Troubles in Northern Ireland (from the late 1960s to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998), and the Mau Mau Uprising (running from 1952 to 1960), that ended with Kenya’s independence. …”
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Belfast in The Fall: Post-Conflict Geographies of Violence and Gender by John Lynch

“…Viewing the process of production and dramatization as intrinsically linked to aspects of the city from a post-conflict perspective, the paper examines how issues of onscreen violence and gender are worked out in this context of economic regeneration in operation since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. The introduction of a fictional serial killer to the province after decades of violence and a fragile peace process can be seen as an attempt to normalize the region in the popular imagination. …”
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“Taking Comedy Seriously”: Humour in Lisa McGee’s Girls and Dolls by María Gaviña-Costero

“…Northern Irish playwrights were acutely aware of this when dealing with violence in their plays and so, however grim the events they depicted, the comic element was very much present. After the Good Friday Agreement, along with the change in the political situation in Northern Ireland, there was a generational change in the theatre. …”
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