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Title

Irish Protestant identities / edited by Mervyn Busteed, Frank Neal and Jonathan Tonge.

Publication

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Busteed, M. A. (Mervyn Austen), 1944-
• Neal, Frank, 1932-
• Tonge, Jonathan.

Description

xviii, 389 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

This multi-disciplinary portrayal and analysis of the Protestant tradition in Ireland examines Protestant contributions to literature, culture, religion and politics. It also assesses Protestant authors, churches, Orange Order, Unionist Parties and Ulster loyalism.

Subject

• Protestants > Ireland > Social conditions
• Protestantism > Ireland > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction / Mervyn Busteed, Frank Neal and Jonathan Tonge -- The memory of 1641 and Protestant identity in restoration and Jacobite Ireland / John Gibney -- Ascendancy insecurities: cross pressures on an eighteenth-century improving landlord / Mervyn Busteed -- Last of their line: the disappearing Anglo-Irish in twentieth-century fictions and autobiographies / Diedre O'Byrne -- "Survival of the fittest": Protestant dissenting congregations of south Munster, 1660-1810 / David J. Butler -- Protestants and politics in the Republic of Ireland: is integration complete? / Bernadette C. Hayes and Tony Fahey -- "If a house be divided against itself that house cannot stand": the church of Ireland and the political border, 1949-73 / Daithí Ó Corráin -- Gender, faith and power: negotiating identity in the mission field / Myrtle Hill -- The church of Ireland diocese of Ferns, 1945-65: a female perspective / Catherine O'Connor --^
• Assessing an absence: Ulster Protestant women authors, 1900-60 / Naomi Doak -- Visible differences: the 1859 revival and sectarianism in Belfast / Mark Doyle -- Evangelicals and Irish identity in independent Ireland: a case study / Patrick Mitchel -- "No, we are not Catholics": intersections of faith and ethnicity among the second-generation Protestant Irish in England / Sarah Morgan and Bronwen Walter -- Ulster Presbyterian immigration to America / James E. Doan -- Ulster transplanted: Irish Protestants, everyday life and constructions of identity in late Victorian Toronto / William Jenkins -- "What satire would be more eloquent than reality?" Reporting the northern unionists in the French press, 1919-22 / Ian McKeane -- Identity and victimhood among Northern Ireland border Protestants / Hastings Donnan -- Scenting the paper rose: the Ulster-Scots quest for music as identity / Fintan Vallely --^
• The evolution of Ulster Protestant identity in the twentieth century: nations and patriotism / Thomas Hennessey --- Pride before a fall? Orangeism in Liverpool since 1945 / Peter Day -- The contemporary orange order in Northern Ireland / Jonathan Tonge and James W. McAuley -- Duck or rabbit? The value systems of loyalist paramilitaries / Lyndsey Harris -- A weapon in the struggle? Loyalist paramilitarism and the politics of auto/biography in contemporary Northern Ireland / Stephen Hopkins -- Containment and the politics of loyalist-based conflict transformation / Brian Graham -- The Northern Ireland labour party and Protestant working-class identity / Aaron Edwards -- The protestant working class and the fragmentation of Ulster unionism / Graham Walker -- Unionist identity and party fortunes since the Good Friday agreement / Neil Southern.

ISBN

• 9780719077456 (hbk.)
• 0719077451 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 183147162
• SCSB-11573466

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library