Gladys Ganiel is Reader in Sociology at Queen’s University Belfast, specialising in religion and conflict, and religion and change in Ireland. She is author/co-author of six books and more than 40 scholarly articles and chapters, including Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland and Considering Grace: Presbyterians and the Troubles (co-authored with Jamie Yohanis).David Mitchell is Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin at Belfast. He is author of Politics and Peace in Northern Ireland (Manchester University Press, 2015) and numerous journal articles and book chapters on several dimensions of the Northern Ireland transition including party politics, language, sport, mediation and religion.

• Introduction 1. Beyond the dominant party system: the transformation of party politics in Northern Ireland 2. Is a middle force emerging in Northern Ireland? 3. Bridge-builder feminism: the feminist movement and conflict in Northern Ireland 4. Praying for Paisley – Fr Gerry Reynolds and the role of prayer in faith-based peacebuilding: a preliminary theoretical framework 5. From I to we: participants’ accounts of the development and impact of shared identity at large-scale displays of Irish national identity 6. Long conflict and how it ends: Protestants and Catholics in Europe and Ireland 7. ‘Small’ and ‘greater’ nations: empires and nationalist movements in Ireland and the Balkans 8. The demands of substantive decolonisation: Brexit and Ireland as a matter of justice

Gladys Ganiel is Reader in Sociology at Queen’s University Belfast, specialising in religion and conflict, and religion and change in Ireland. She is author/co-author of six books and more than 40 scholarly articles and chapters, including Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland and Considering Grace: Presbyterians and the Troubles (co-authored with Jamie Yohanis).David Mitchell is Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin at Belfast. He is author of Politics and Peace in Northern Ireland (Manchester University Press, 2015) and numerous journal articles and book chapters on several dimensions of the Northern Ireland transition including party politics, language, sport, mediation and religion.

• Introduction 1. Beyond the dominant party system: the transformation of party politics in Northern Ireland 2. Is a middle force emerging in Northern Ireland? 3. Bridge-builder feminism: the feminist movement and conflict in Northern Ireland 4. Praying for Paisley – Fr Gerry Reynolds and the role of prayer in faith-based peacebuilding: a preliminary theoretical framework 5. From I to we: participants’ accounts of the development and impact of shared identity at large-scale displays of Irish national identity 6. Long conflict and how it ends: Protestants and Catholics in Europe and Ireland 7. ‘Small’ and ‘greater’ nations: empires and nationalist movements in Ireland and the Balkans 8. The demands of substantive decolonisation: Brexit and Ireland as a matter of justice