ABSTRACT
The promotion of understanding, appreciation and acceptance of difference, which have been discussed in the previous chapter, take on additional meanings and roles when brought to a political and cultural context like Northern Ireland. Here they have been merged with the idea and practice of community relations and regarded as able to make a contribution to resolving the conflict. Adding to the complexity, responses to the agendas of multiculturalism are often linked to the politics of state and community. The Northern Ireland situation emphasises the political nature of these concepts and allows us to interrogate the ideas, and their application in museums, even further.
