The contested identities of Ulster Protestants /
'Flags', 'Emblems' and 'The Past'. Three seemingly insurmountable challenges which continue to hinder the peace process in Northern Ireland. For many, the responsibility for the impasse that scuppered the Haass talks and brought violent protests to the streets of Belfas...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Paul Burgess and Gareth Mulvenna
- 1. Beginning to talk to 'Billy': Revising Southern Stereotypes of Unionism / Eoghan Harris
- 2. Investigating the Protestant 'Kaleidoscope' / Henry McDonald
- 3. Lost in Translation: Loyalism and the Media / Malachi O'Doherty
- 4. Typical Unionists? The Politicians and their People, Past and Present / James Greer
- 5. 'Doing Their Bit': Gendering the Constitution of Protestant, Unionist and Loyalist Identities / Fidelma Ashe and Caireen McCluskey
- 6. The Re-invention of the Orange Order: Triumphalism or Orangefest? / Brian Kennaway
- 7. Loyalism on Film and Out of Context / Stephen Baker
- 8. This Sporting Life: Anything to Declare? Community Allegiance, Sports and the National Question / Thomas Paul Burgess
- 9. No-One Likes Us, We Don't Care: What is to be (un) done about Ulster Protestant Identity? / Robbie McVeigh
- 10. Celebration and Controversy in America: At Home with the Scots-Irish Diaspora / John Wilson and Alister McReynolds
- 11. Convergence / Graham Reid
- 12. Labour Aristocracies, Triumphalism and Melancholy: Misconceptions of the Protestant Working Class and Loyalist Community / Gareth Mulvenna
- 13. To the Beat of a Different Drum; Loyalist Youth and the Culture of Marching Bands / Sam McCready and Neil Symington
- 14. Blood Sacrifice for Queen and Country: Paramilitarism and Political Manoeuvrings / Billy Hutchinson.