Twenty years after the Good Friday Agreement, although Northern Irish politics has avoided returning to the bloodshed of the Troubles, by every other metric it has objectively failed. The botched parliament at Stormont lumbers from crisis to crisis & has scarcely passed any laws. At the time of writing, Sinn Fein & the DUP are refusing to share power & Northern Ireland is facing being run directly from London. This remarkable book examines power-sharing & the peace process in Northern Ireland on the twentieth anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement & asks what it has achieved beyond an end to violence. She concludes that, although it brought an end to violent blood shed on Northern Ireland`s streets, it also failed to create healthy & functional politics. The Good Friday Agreement served an important purpose in 1998, but has since been out-paced by local & global politics. It is no longer fit to facilitate the peaceful politics it made possible, as the current collapse of power-sharing sadly shows.