Lesley Lelourec is Senior Lecturer at the University of Rennes 2, France. Her research focuses on British attitudes to Ireland, Northern Ireland and the Troubles, and on Anglo-Irish relations in general. She has co-edited a collection in the Reimagining Ireland Series, entitled Ireland and Victims: Confronting the Past, Forging the Future, 2012, with Gráinne O'Keeffe-Vigneron. Her most recent research comprises a study of the impacts of the 1993 IRA Warrington bombings on the peace process.

Gráinne O'Keeffe-Vigneron is Senior Lecturer at the University of Rennes 2, France. She is currently working on the Irish diaspora in France and is co-directing, «Les diasporas irlandaises: enjeux économiques, migrations, integration» as part of a national research project in Irish studies in France (Groupement d'Intérêt Scientifique (G.I.S EIRE)) and has recently completed a report on the Irish in France for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Dublin.

CONTENTS: Lesley Lelourec/Gráinne O'Keeffe-Vigneron: Politics and the People: Shaping and Sharing the Future in Northern Ireland - John Brewer: Dealing with the Past and Envisioning the Future: Some Problems with Northern Ireland's Peace Process - Timothy White: Power-Sharing and Political Stability: Creating and Sustaining a Shared Future in Northern Ireland - Stephen Hopkins: The Memoir-Writing of Former Paramilitary Prisoners in Northern Ireland: A Politics of Reconciliation? - Jim McAuley: Loyalist Collective Memory, Perspectives of the Somme and Divided History - Aaron Edwards: The Ulster Volunteer Force and Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland - Philippe Cauvet: Postnationalism, Moderate Nationalism and a Shared Northern Ireland: The Case of the SDLP - Eva Urban: Shared Futures or a Rerun of the 1930s? Community, Trauma and Reification in the People of Gallagher Street and Planet Belfast - David Clark: «A Bright Shiny Police Force Acceptable to All»: Representing the PSNI in Irish Crime Fiction - Katie Markham: Toy Guns and Miniatures: The Kitschification of Conflict in the Paramilitary Museum - Laurence McKeown: Aftermath - the Role of the Arts in Dealing with the Legacy of Conflict.