After the Peace

After the Peace brings the story of Loyalist paramilitaries up to date and sheds light on the residual violence that persists in the post-accord era.

Carolyn Gallaher is Associate Professor in the School of International Service at American University. She is the author of On the Fault Line: Race, Class, and the American Patriot Movement.

In After the Peace, Carolyn Gallaher presents a highly nuanced but also recognizable and sustained interpretation of Loyalism in Northern Ireland. The fundamentalist/political binary comes through as the key distinction within Loyalism. This is an excellent synthesis of debates on the role of identity politics and the deficiencies of cosmopolitanism as a solution to divided societies.