'[...] this is an important and welcome book that effectively illuminates a continued way forward to a shared future by recalling a complex and all-but-forgotten past. Inconvenient to both sides of the city's sectarian divide, that past reveals present-day political self-definitions to be the product of selective historical memory.'
Victorian Studies
Dominic Bryan is Professor in Anthropology at Queen's University, Belfast
S.J. Connolly is Emeritus Professor of Irish History at Queen's University, Belfast
John Nagle is Professor of Sociology at Queen's University, Belfast
Introduction
Chapter 1 The origins of public space
Chapter 2 Lord Donegall's town
Chapter 3 The making of a municipal culture
Chapter 4 Freedom and order
Chapter 5 Public space and civil conflict
Chapter 6 Public space and the Protestant state
Chapter 7 New directions? The 1960s
Chapter 8 Violence and carnival: renegotiating public space 1970-2008
Chapter 9 Shared space or divided future?
Conclusion Public space - past lessons and future strategies
Index