Full Description
Assessing the impact of paramilitary violence on border Protestants in Northern Ireland remains a critically overlooked part of the region's history. Remembered through a framework of memory that blurs the boundary between victim and perpetrator, existing scholarship often disempowers border Protestants by obscuring their experience under the Provisional IRA's campaign. This re-examination of the conflict illuminates how the Troubles impacted the Protestant community's physical, economic, and cultural presence in the border counties. Combining oral history with a broader assessment of the Provisional campaign, this book presents a compelling case study for viewing this violence as a form of ethnic cleansing.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Professor Henry Patterson
Introduction: Moving On and Losing Out
Part I: Memory and the Northern Ireland Conflict
Chapter 1. The Past in Northern Ireland
Chapter 2. Memory, Forgetting, and Trauma in Northern Ireland
Part II: Memory on the Border
Chapter 3. Protestant Memory on the Border in the 1970s
Chapter 4. Targeted Killings and Community Trauma (1980-1987)
Chapter 5.From the Enniskillen Poppy Day Atrocity to the 1994 Ceasefire
Part III: Memory on the Margins of History
Chapter 6. Protestant Memory of Ethnic Cleansing
Chapter 7. Hubris and Insult
Conclusion: The Northern Ireland Vichy Syndrome
Appendix: Chronological List of Deaths in Fermanagh
Bibliography
Index
