Irish Protestant Identities

by Busteed, Mervyn; Neal, Frank; Tonge, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780719077456
• ISBN10: 0719077451
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-08-01
• Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR

Summary

"Irish Protestant Identities is a major multi-disciplinary portrayal and analysis of the often overlooked Protestant tradition in Ireland. A team of contributors explores what is distinctive about the religious minority on the island of Ireland. Protestant contributions to literature, culture, religion and politics are all examined. Accessible and engaging throughout, the book examines the contributions to Irish society from Protestant authors, Protestant churches, the Orange Order, Unionist parties and Ulster loyalists. Most books on Ireland have concentrated upon the Catholicism and nationalism which shaped the country in terms of literature, poetry, politics and outlook. This book instead explores how a minority tradition has developed and coped with existence in a polity and society in which some historically felt under-represented or neglected."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Mervyn Busteed is Honorary Research Fellow of the Universities of Manchester, Salford and Liverpool Frank Neal is Research Professor at the University of Salford and Honorary Fellow of the University of Liverpool Jonathan Tonge is Professor of Politics at the University of Liverpool

Table of Contents

List of tables	p. ix
List of figures	p. xi
List of contributors	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xix
List of abbreviations	p. xxi
Introduction	p. 1
Aspects of ascendancy	p. 11
The memory of 1641 and Protestant identity in Restoration and Jacobite Ireland	p. 13
Ascendancy insecurities: cross pressures on an eighteenth-century improving landlord	p. 28
Last of their line: the disappearing Anglo-Irish in twentieth-century fictions and autobiographies	p. 40
Coping strategies in a changing Ireland	p. 53
"Survival of the fittest": Protestant dissenting congregations of south Munster, 1660-1810	p. 55
Protestants and politics in the Republic of Ireland: is integration complete?	p. 70
"If a house be divided against itself that house cannot stand": the Church of Ireland and the political border, 1949-73	p. 84
The gender dimension	p. 97
Gender, faith and power: negotiating identity in the mission field	p. 99
The Church of Ireland diocese of Ferns, 1945-65: a female perspective	p. 113
Assessing an absence: Ulster Protestant women authors, 1900-60	p. 126
Religion and identity	p. 139
Visible differences: the 1859 revival and sectarianism in Belfast	p. 141
Evangelicals and Irish identity in independent Ireland: a case study	p. 155
"No, we are not Catholics": intersections of faith and ethnicity among the second-generation Protestant Irish in England	p. 171
The overseas context	p. 185
Ulster Presbyterian immigration to America	p. 187
Ulster transplanted: Irish Protestants, everyday life and constructions of identity in late Victorian Toronto	p. 200
"What satire would be more eloquent than reality?" Reporting the northern unionists in the French press, 1919-22	p. 221
Identity and culture	p. 233
Identity and victimhood among Northern Ireland border Protestants	p. 235
Scenting the paper rose: the Ulster-Scots quest for music as identity	p. 247
The evolution of Ulster Protestant identity in the twentieth century: nations and patriotism	p. 257
The Orange tradition	p. 271
Pride before a fall? Orangeism in Liverpool since 1945	p. 273
The contemporary Orange Order in Northern Ireland	p. 289
The Protestant working class: political and paramilitary representation	p. 303
Duck or rabbit? The value systems of loyalist paramilitaries	p. 305
A weapon in the struggle? Loyalist paramilitarism and the politics of auto/biography in contemporary Northern Ireland	p. 319
Containment and the politics of loyalist-based conflict transformation	p. 334
The Northern Ireland Labour Party and Protestant working-class identity	p. 347
The Protestant working class and the fragmentation of Ulster Unionism	p. 360
Unionist identity and party fortunes since the Good Friday Agreement	p. 373
Index	p. 385
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