"This book is about the people, ideas and movements that created the Good Friday Agreement. But it is also about its limits: the Agreement's promise was frequently betrayed by an establishment reluctant to give up its dominance. The text is imbued with an inspired sense of people making their own history, and it is full of their stories. Campbell shows that the Agreement came into being through the efforts of a wide range of ordinary people, and argues that the new state depends for it success on their continuing engagement."--BOOK JACKET.