The Sunningdale Agreement - A Selected Reading List

The following is a DRAFT list of selected reading material on the Sunningdale Agreement, 6-9 December 1973. The list may be of use while the CAIN web pages on this Key Event are being completed. The reader should also consult the CAIN bibliography for other references to this event and for the full citations to the following items.

Key Texts

British Government, Irish Government, and the Northern Ireland Executive designate. (1973). 'The Sunningdale Agreement': Tripartite agreement on the Council of Ireland - Communiqué issued following the Sunningdale Conference, (9 December 1973). Belfast: Northern Ireland Information Service.

Leavy (1973) Political Thinking Behind Sunningdale

Margesson (1991) Changing Perceptions about Resolving Conflict in Northern Ireland: the failure of the 1974 Sunningdale Agreement and its implications for settlement in the 1990's.

Revolutionary Marxist Group (1975) British Strategy in Northern Ireland, from the White Paper to the Fall of Sunnningdale.

General Reference Texts

Bardon, Jonathan. (1992). A History of Ulster. Belfast: Blackstaff Press.
Bew, Paul., and Gillespie, Gordon. (1999). Northern Ireland: A Chronology of the Troubles 1968-1999. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.
Coogan, Tim Pat. (1995). The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal 1966-1996 and the Search for Peace. London: Hutchinson.
Elliott, Sydney., and Flakes, W.D. (1999). Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-1999 Belfast: Blackstaff Press.
McKittrick, David. (2000). Making Sense of the Troubles. Belfast: Blackstaff Press.
McKittrick, David., Kelters, Seamus., Feeney, Brian., and Thornton, Chris. (1999). Lost Lives: The stories of the men, women and children who died as a result of the Northern Ireland troubles. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing.
Sutton, Malcolm. (1994). An Index of Deaths from the Conflict in Ireland 1969-1993. Belfast: Beyond the Pale. [See also the revised and updated Sutton Index of Deaths.]

See also the list of source material that will be used in the main web pages on the Sunningdale Agreement.