The Guardian view on the Good Friday agreement: still a shared achievement | Editorial

Northern Ireland is a better place for 20 years of peace. But the effort to uphold it requires constant commitment, especially in BritainIn 2016, in a book entitled In Praise of Forgetting, the American writer David Rieff took aim at the idea that human societies have an enduring moral and political duty to memorialise the past. We might be better off, he argued, if we think rather less about history and instead pay rather more attention to getting on with our lives. In one passage, Mr Rief