Backstop Land

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`The drama of Brexit has revealed how little British citizens and politicians outside of Northern Ireland actually know about the place. They – we – are very poorly acquainted with the reality of daily life in the region two decades after the Good Friday Agreement, as it negotiates the ferocious and unpredictable currents of Brexit. Thanks to Glenn Patterson, we cannot now avoid understanding the Northern Ireland of the twenty-first century. Patterson pulls no punches in a tragic and comic survey of the quirks, passions and almost surreal identity politics of his own Protestant community and its Catholic counterpart. Northern Ireland after twenty years of peace is often no closer to an emotional and political reconciliation than it was during the troubles. And the potential for violence is very real. Read this absorbing book to understand why, since 2016, e have been allaying with fire. There is no longer any excuse for ignorance’