In thisexacting re-examination of paramilitary violence upon border Protestants within Northern Ireland, The Northern Ireland Conflict on the Margins of History illuminates the understudied impact the Troubles had upon the Protestant community’s physical, economic, and cultural presence within the border counties.

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Foreword
Professor Henry Patterson

Introduction: Moving On and Losing Out

Part I: Memory and the Northern Ireland Conflict

Chapter 1. The Past in Northern Ireland
Chapter 2. Memory, Forgetting, and Trauma in Northern Ireland

Part II: Memory on the Border

Chapter 3. Protestant Memory on the Border in the 1970s
Chapter 4. Targeted Killings and Community Trauma (1980–1987)
Chapter 5.From the Enniskillen Poppy Day Atrocity to the 1994 Ceasefire

Part III: Memory on the Margins of History

Chapter 6. Protestant Memory of Ethnic Cleansing
Chapter 7. Hubris and Insult

Conclusion: The Northern Ireland Vichy Syndrome

Appendix: Chronological List of Deaths in Fermanagh

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Cillian McGrattan lectures in politics at Ulster University. Awarded a PhD in 2008, his research has focused on dealing with the past in post-conflict situations, trauma and peacebuilding, transitional justice, and nationalism in Northern Ireland. He has published articles in Political Studies, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, and Contemporary British History. Cillian has published a number of books including: Northern Ireland, 1968-2008 (Palgrave, 2010); The Northern Ireland Conflict (Oneworld, 2012); The Politics of Trauma and Peacebuilding (Routledge, 2016); and most recently, Anti-Sectarianism and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland (Palgrave 2024).