1. Same difference : post-Troubles contexts and contradictions. -- 2. New terrains: ‘Northern Irish art’ in the wider world. -- 3. The post-Troubles art of Willie Dougherty. -- 4 . That which was : histories, documents, archives. -- 5. Phantom publics : imagining ways of 'being together' . -- Conclusion - or against conclusions
Summary
Since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 - the formal end-point of the thirty-year modern 'Troubles' - contemporary visual artists have offered diverse responses to post-conflict circumstances in Northern Ireland. In Ghost-Haunted Land - the first book-length examination of post-Troubles contemporary art - Declan Long highlights artists who have reflected on the ongoing anxieties of aftermath
