I thank my colleagues at the Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast: Dominic Bryan, Catherine Boone, Eamonn Hughes, Gillian McIntosh, Valerie Miller, and Joan Watson for their support during the preparation of this work. I also thank the staff of the Northern Ireland Political Collection of the Linen Hall Library, Belfast: Yvonne Murphy, Alistair Gordon, and Ross Moore for their ssistance. In addition to those mentioned above, Professors Richard English and Rick Wilford of the School of Politics, International Studies, and Philosophy at Queen’s University, Belfast, provided invaluable comments on some of the material. Several reference sources have been invaluable in the writing of this dictionary: the CAIN website, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968–1999, Lost Lives, Interpreting Northern Ireland, the Northern Ireland Elections website, and Northern Ireland: A Chronology of the Troubles 1968–1999. I particularly thank the authors of these works: Martin Melaugh, Brendan Lynn, Fionnuala McKenna, Sydney Elliott, the late W. D. Flackes, David McKittrick, Seamus Kelters, Brian Feeney, Chris Thornton, David McVea, Nicholas Whyte, and my colleague Paul Bew for creating the essential works of reference mentioned above. Any serious researcher of the Northern Ireland conflict and peace process should refer to these sources for more detailed information on the Northern Ireland Troubles and peace process. Finally, thanks are also due to my editor, Jon Woronoff, for his help and patience in seeing this work through to completion.

This book began its unlikely life as my doctoral project at Oxford University. My foremost gratitude is to my supervisor, Michael Freeden, who in his patient and insightful way provided invaluable perspective and a great deal of useful criticism. David Miller and Elizabeth Frazer read drafts of four of the chapters that eventually made their way into this book, and offered important suggestions. Katherine Morris, my advisor at Mansfi eld College, was also a great source of support during the diffi cult and anxious process of writing. In developing the material into this book I am grateful to have had the benefi t of comments and support from Ronald Craigh, Laurence Davis, Marianne Enckel, Benjamin Franks, Sharif Gemie, David Graeber, Andrej Grubacic, Ruth Kinna, Cindy Milstein, Alex Plows, Stephen Shukaitis, Starhawk and Stuart White. So many other friends, comrades and colleagues have contributed to the ideas expressed in this book without reading my written work that I could never mention some without doing injustice to others. If you, reader, have ever exchanged ideas with me in conversation then something of the following pages is yours, as are my heartfelt thanks and solidarity. During my research I have also enjoyed the hospitality of several autonomous spaces, whose living example of ‘anarchy in action’ will always be remembered: Can Masdeu (Barcelona), Centre Autonome (Lausanne), Cecco Rivolta (Firenze), CIA (Amsterdam), Dragonfl y (Oxford), Equinox (Manchester) Eurodusnie (Leiden), Forte Prenestino (Roma), Les Naus (Barcelona), Les Tanneries (Dijon), La Tour (Genève), Ragman’s Lane (Wye Valley), Salon Mazal (Tel Aviv) and Talamh (Lanarkshire). Earlier versions of Chapters 2 and 6 have appeared as academic articles in the Journal of Political Ideologies and in Anarchist Studies, respectively. I thank the editors and the anonymous reviewers who contributed useful comments on these versions. The editors and staff at Pluto Press have been of invaluable assistance in bringing this book to print, and my thanks goes to David Castle, Helen Griffi ths, Melanie Patrick, Stuart Tolley and Robert Webb. During work on this book I was supported by a post-doctoral fellowship at the Porter School of Environmental Studies at Tel-Aviv University. Finally, my parents Ze’ev and Shifra, my sisters Noa and If’at, and my partner, Lucy Michaels, have been there for me throughout to offer their unconditional love and support. It is to them that I am ultimately indebted.