The Belfast agreement : context, content, consequences / Joseph Ruane and Jennifer Todd -- Ethnonationalism, public opinion and the Good Friday Agreement / Bernadette C. Hayes and Ian McAllister -- Nationalism, republicanism and the Good Friday Agreement / Jennifer Todd -- 'Quiet diplomacy and personal conversation.' Track two diplomacy and the search for a settlement in Northern Ireland / Paul Arthur -- Equality and the Good Friday Agreement / Christopher McCrudden -- A new beginning? The prospects for a politics of civility in Northern Ireland / Arthur Aughey -- The end of (Irish) history? Three readings of the current conjecture / Joseph Ruane.