Inventing the myth : political passions and the Ulster Protestant imagination / Connal Parr.
This book approaches Ulster Protestantism through its theatrical and cultural intersection with politics, reestablishing a forgotten history and engaging with contemporary debates. Anchored by the perspectives of ten writers, some of whom have been notably active in political life, it uniquely exami...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Words as weapons: Northern Ireland's ongoing cultural wars
- The strange radicalism of Thomas Carnduff and St. John Ervine
- John Hewitt, Sam Thompson, and a lost labour culture
- Stewart Parker, the UWC strike of May 1974, and prisons
- Ron Hutchinson, Graham Reid, and the Hard Eighties
- The anger and energy of Gary Mitchell
- Loyal women? Marie Jones and Christina Reid
- Conclusion.