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Article: Cinema and Northern Ireland: Film, Culture, and Politics.(Book review)
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- September 22, 2007
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Cinema and Northern Ireland: Film, Culture, and Politics by John Hill. London, BFi Publishing (Distributed in the U.S. by the University of California Press), 2006. 262 pp., illus. Hardcover: $80.00 and Paperback: $27.95.
In recent months the apparently intractable and interminable conflict in Northern Ireland seems to have reached a peaceful resolution. The historic breakthrough occurred in May with the signing of a power sharing agreement in Stormont by legendary rivals Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness. The Stormont Agreement promises a period of unprecedented cooperation, fulfilling the objectives of the initial Good Friday Agreement of 1998. A statement was ...