Northern Protestants: On Shifting Ground

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Ulster Unionists are facing a demographic tipping point, with the likely loss of their long-standing majority status within Northern Ireland. It's a completely riveting read, as the author visits communities in each part of the north to gauge opinions on the state of the union and how the protestant community is feeling on a range of issues. Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide. Both have same theme so if you don't read the reviews you might not know this is the up to date book. She seeks to understand how the Northern Protestant community is negotiating the ‘shifting ground’ on which it stands.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.And working-class Loyalists, claiming to have received no benefit from the long decades of relative peace, are now making ominous noises about ‘fighting to defend the union’. As an atheist and an Irishman,i have naturally struggled to find patience for them down the years,as the base elements within their community are often the loudest and still haven't been cast to the fringe where they would belong in any other civilised society.

Feminism in particular is striving for change and you can only feel optimistic with so many driven women featuring strongly, looking to make the shift to issues that need to be tackled. This is a compulsive read with views being expressed by Church leaders, community activists, young people, Irish speakers, LGBQT, radical thinkers and many victims. I'd have liked a conclusion that could recommend what could be done to help NI move forwards, or provide an analysis of where it stands now.This book offers us a glimpse into the Protestant identity and we would do well to understand their fears and aspirations. It’s a deep but breezy read, and I found myself constantly saying far past my bedtime, “Just one more section.

Forged from a partnership between a university press and a library, Project MUSE is a trusted part of the academic and scholarly community it serves. There were a couple of protestant owned businesses but they were mostly concentrated at one end of the small town we were from. Towards the end of the decade, as civil rights protesters demanded an end to a political system designed to disempower Catholics, that unionist rallying cry grew louder and more strident in its opposition to the same.

At present, it would seem, unionists are fighting mainly with themselves, the DUP’s leadership debacle a symptom of a deeper existential crisis within unionism caused by a conjunction of forces, some predictable, some unforeseen, which have rendered Northern Ireland’s future as part of the United Kingdom increasingly uncertain.