Full Description
'As one would expect in a book written by authors of such varied outlook, no single vision emerges. But some fascinating material does.' Times Literary Supplement
'The breadth of material considered by the contributors to Who Are 'The People'? provides an excellent introduction to the way in which the broad identity of Ulster Loyalism is underpinned by gender and class, expressed in work as well as social environments, and voiced through religious allusion as well as political rhetoric.' Irish Studies Review
'It confronts all the issues you're not supposed to raise in polite company. Read it and you'll have to revise many of your prejudices, while having one or two confirmed.' Camden New Journal
Contents
Introduction
1. Arthur Augley ( University of Ulster): The Character of Ulster Unionism
2. Brian Graham ( University of Ulster): Ulster - A Representation of Place yet to be imagined
3. Duncan Morrow ( University of Ulster): Suffering for Righteousness Sake? Fundamentalist Protestantism and Ulster Politics
4. Alan Finlayson ( Queens University Belfast): Discourse and Contemporary Loyalist Identity
5. Alan Bairner ( University of Ulster): Up to Their Knees? Football, Sectarianism and Masculinity and Protestant Working Class Identity
6. Colin Coulter ( St Patrick's College, Maynooth): The Culture of Contentment: The Political Beliefs and Practise of the Unionist Middle Class.
7. Rosemary Sales ( Middlesex University): Gender and Protestantism in Northern Ireland
8. James McAuley ( University of Huddersfield): Flying the one Winged Bird: Ulster Unionism and the Peace Process
9. Mark McGovern and Peter Shirlow: Counter-Insurgency and De-Industrialisation and the Political Economy of Ulster Loyalism
Index
