Ulster Loyalism after the Good Friday Agreement History, Identity and Change

by McAuley, James W.; Spencer, Graham

• ISBN13: 9780230228856
• ISBN10: 0230228852
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-02-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book provides a timely assessment of loyalist history, identity and community in Northern Ireland today which provides a comprehensive picture of how loyalism has reacted to changes since the Good Friday Agreement. Challenging simplistic stereotypes of loyalism, the book provides a complex multi-faceted explanation of the loyalist imagination.

Author Biography

James W. McAuley is Associate Dean for Research and Enterprise, and Professor of Political Sociology arid Irish Studies in the School of Human and Health Sciences at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He recently completed two major projects on Orangeism (with Jon Tonge), funded by the ESRC, and on former paramilitary prisoners (with Jon Tonge, Peter Shirlow and Catherine McGlynn), funded by the Leverhulme Trust. His latest book Ulster's Last Stand? (Re) Constructing Unionism after the Peace Process was published in 2010. Graham Spencer is Reader in Politics, Conflict and the Media at the University of Portsmouth, UK and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He has written widely on Northern Ireland. His books include Omagh: Voices of Loss and The State of Loyalism in Northern Ireland. His current research is concerned with Protestant identity and peacemaking in Northern Ireland and the problems of forgiving and remembering in post-conflict society.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Politics, Identity and Change in Contemporary Loyalism; G.Spencer&J.W.McAuley
Historic Loyalism: Allegiance, Patriotism, Irishness and Britishness in Ireland; T.Hennessey
Loyalism in Transition: Southern Loyalists and the Irish Free State, 1921-1937; L-A.Coffe 
Post-Agreement Loyalism and the international dimension; R.Mac Ginty
The Politics of Fear? Provisionalism, Loyalism and the 'New Politics' of Northern Ireland; K.Bean
From Politics to Community Development: In Discussion with Billy Hutchinson; G.Spencer 
The Ulster Volunteer Force and the Path to Decommissioning; C.Hudson
Quis Separabit? Loyalist Transformation and the Strategic Environment; L.Harris
Transforming Loyalist Communities: a Participatory Peace Research Approach; S.Bloomer &A.Edwards
Loyalism, Orangeism and Britishness: Contemporary Synergies and Tensions; A.Mycock, J.Tonge&J.W. McAuley
Auxiliaries in the Cause? Loyalist Women in Conflict and Post Conflict; C.McGlynn&J.W. McAuley
Reflections on the Relationships between Loyalism and Church; P.Orr
Loyalist Former Prisoners and Community Development; G.Spencer 
Monitoring the Loyalist Paramilitaries: The Role of the Independent Monitoring Commission in the Northern Ireland Peace Process, 2003-2009; J.G.D.Grieve 
Loyalism: Political Violence and Decommissioning; N.Southern
The Contemporary Politics of the Ulster Defence Association; G.Spencer 
'Bound by Oath and Duty to Remember': Loyalism and Memory; K.Brown
Loyalist Perspectives on Apology, Regret and Change; G.Spencer