Sunning dale agreement

What were the strengths and weaknesses of the Sunning dale agreement as a form of conflict regulation? Consider the extent to which the key dimensions of the Anglo-Irish Treaty (1921) were addressed in 1973/4.
Essential Reading:
O’Leary and McGarry, The Politics of Antagonism (1996) Chs. 3-5.
Howe, Stephen, Ireland and Empire: Colonial Legacies in Irish History and Culture (Oxford: OUP, 2000) ch. 9 and conclusion.

Ruane, Joseph and Todd, Jennifer, Northern Ireland: Religion, Ethnic Conflict and Territoriality’, in Coakley, John (ed.), The Territorial Management of Ethnic Conflict (London: Frank Cass, 2005). Pdf.
Kissane, Bill, The Politics of the Irish Civil War (Oxford: OUP: 2005) Intro., chs. 2, 3, 5.

Additional:
Bew, Paul et al., Northern Ireland 1921-1994: Political Forces and Social Classes (London: Serif, 1996). * Especially for 2nd question above.
Boyce, D. G., No lack of ghosts’: memory, commemoration, and the state in Ireland’ in McBride, Ian (ed.), History and Memory in Modern Ireland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)
Cunningham, M. British Government Policy in Northern Ireland, 1969-2000 (Manchester, 2001) chs. 2-4.
Jackson, Alvin (2003) Home Rule pp. 260-85.
Patterson, Henry, The Politics of Illusion: A Political History of the IRA (London: Serif). Ch. 1 The Origins of Social Republicanism’.
Purdie, Bob (1990) Politics in the Streets: The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland (Blackstaff).
Rose, Peter (1999) How the Troubles came to Northern Ireland (Macmillan)
Ruane J. and Todd, J. The dynamics of conflict in Northern Ireland (Cambridge,1997) Chs. 8-9.
Lijphart, Arend (1977) Democracy in Plural Societies: A Comparative Exploration (Yale) Chapter 4, especially pp. 134-41.
Wolff, Stefan 2003 Disputed Territories Ch. 7.