The Contested Identities of Ulster Catholics

✍ Scribed by Thomas Paul Burgess

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 274
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book investigates the often-fragmented nature of Ulster Nationalist / Republican / Roman Catholic politics, culture and identity. It offers a companion publication to The Contested Identities of Ulster Protestants (2015). Historically the Catholic community of Ulster are regarded as a unified and coherent group, sharing cultural and political aspirations. However, the volume explores communities of many variants and strands, belying the notion of an easy, homogenous bloc in terms of identity, political aspirations, voting preferences and cultural identity. These include historical differences within constitutional nationalism and Republicanism, gender politics, partition, perceptions of this community from The Republic of Ireland, and more. The book will appeal to students and scholars across the fields of Politics, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Irish Studies and Peace Studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxv
Introduction (Thomas Paul Burgess)....Pages 1-6
‘The State We’re In: Imagining a New Republic; The Challenge to Irish Nationalism’ (Thomas Paul Burgess)....Pages 7-19
Catholics in Northern Ireland: Changing Political Attitudes, 1968–2018 (John Coakley)....Pages 21-37
Rights Versus Rites? Catholic Women and Abortion Access in Northern Ireland (Claire Pierson)....Pages 39-55
‘Tough, Violent and Virtually Ungovernable’: Lessons from History—Northern Nationalists in the Irish Republic 1969–75 (Brian Hanley)....Pages 57-82
‘E pluribus unum; The Elusiveness of a Singular Community Identity’ (Malachi O’Doherty)....Pages 83-91
The Story of Catholic Schools in Northern Ireland: Past, Present and Possible Future (Tony Gallagher)....Pages 93-110
Paddy Devlin, the Labour Movement and the Catholic Community (Connal Parr)....Pages 111-125
Sport, Politics and Catholics in Northern Ireland (David Hassan, Conor Murray)....Pages 127-142
From the Front-Lines of War to the Sidelines of Peace? Gender, Republicanism and the Peace Process (Niall Gilmartin)....Pages 143-170
From Platitude to Realpolitik; Challenging Generic Designations (Tommy McKearney)....Pages 171-182
Meet the New Boss…Same as the Old Boss; Assessing Republican Attitudes Towards the Protestant, Unionist and Loyalist Communities in Northern Ireland (Gareth Mulvenna)....Pages 183-199
Ideology and Identity in the Founding Group of the Social Democratic and Labour Party: Evaluating the Life-Writing of a Political Generation (Stephen Hopkins)....Pages 201-217
Republican Fragmentation in the Face of Enduring Partition (Anthony McIntyre)....Pages 219-237
Ambivalence in a Post-conflict Society: Young Catholics Growing Up in Northern Ireland (Aimee Smith)....Pages 239-259
Back Matter ....Pages 261-263

✦ Subjects

Political Science and International Relations; Politics and Religion; British Politics; Cultural Policy and Politics; Religion and Society