The 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election, taking place on Thursday 5th May is expected to see 90 members elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly. This will be the seventh assembly election since it was estalished in April 1998 as a result of the Belfast Agreement, the outcome of a long process of talks between the Northern Ireland political parties and the British and Irish Governments.
It comes at a turbulent time in Northern Irish politics, with the resignation of First Minister, Paul Givan, in February, in protest over the Northern Ireland Protocol (Brexit). Sinn Féin are currently favourites in the polls.
We’ve compiled this reading list of our books focussing on Northern Ireland’s politics, culture and history. Don’t forget that if you’re a newsletter subscriber you can get 30% off all these titles! Sign up using the form at the bottom of this page.
Northern Ireland a generation after Good Friday
Rebels in government
Immigrants as outsiders in the two Irelands
Inside Accounts, Volume II
Conflict, peace and mental health
Digital contention in a divided society
The impact of the Troubles on the Republic of Ireland, 1968-79
Belfast punk and the Troubles: An oral history
In the shadow of history
The Northern Ireland Troubles in Britain
Theories of International Relations and Northern Ireland
Sunningdale, the Ulster Workers' Council strike and the struggle for democracy in Northern Ireland
From Partition to Brexit
Operation Demetrius and its aftermath
Inside Accounts, Volume I
Transforming conflict through social and economic development
Conflict to peace
No solution
Socio-ideological fantasy and the Northern Ireland conflict
Abandoning historical conflict?
Spoiling the peace?
Catholic police officers in Northern Ireland
A history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party
The state and 'terrorists' in Nepal and Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland in the Second World War
Policing the peace in Northern Ireland
The Northern Ireland experience of conflict and agreement
Ghost-haunted land
Northern Ireland and the crisis of anti-racism
Direct rule and the governance of Northern Ireland
Truth recovery in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland and the European Union
Northern Ireland after the troubles
Politics and peace in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland and the politics of boredom
The Northern Ireland peace process
The BBC's 'Irish troubles'
Breaking peace