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to his native Downpatrick with its English Street, Irish Street and Scotch Street as an example of the complex society the two communities had inherited. A failure to manage the two contrasting British and Irish cultures and traditions had, he argued, sustained the conflict, and the new dispensation under the Good Friday Agreement presented the opportunity to address it. Should Northern Ireland draw a line under MUP_Hume_Peacemaking.indd 169 11/10/2013 15:25 170 Maurice Hayes the past and move on, as the leaders of France and Germany had done after 1945, he
, ‘Modernising history: the Real Politik of heritage and cultural tradition in Northern Ireland’, in David Miller (ed.), Rethinking Northern Ireland: Culture, Ideology and Colonialism (London: Longman, 1998 ), pp. 228–52, and B. Rolston,. ‘What’s wrong with multiculturalism? Liberalism and the Irish conflict’, in ibid ., pp. 253