Ulster's Lost Counties: Loyalism and Paramilitarism since 1920

✍ Scribed by Edward Burke

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2024
Tongue: English
Leaves: 358
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

In 1920, the three Ulster counties of Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan were excluded from Northern Ireland. What happens to an abandoned people? And what is the impact on subsequent generations? At a time of uncertainty over the future of Northern Ireland, the history of Ulster loyalists who found themselves on the 'wrong side' of the Irish border is especially relevant. Memories of the violence and betrayal experienced by one generation of protestants in the three counties entrenched an intergenerational Ulster loyalist identity. Subsequently, three-county loyalists who moved across the border played an important role in militant politics. Examining armed resistance in these counties and the radicals who came from them, Edward Burke argues that violence or terrorism perpetrated by 'lost Ulster' loyalists enjoyed considerable success. Spanning the Anglo-Irish War to the Troubles and beyond, Ulster's Lost Counties demonstrates the grip of identity and betrayal since the partition of Ireland.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half-title
Title page
Imprints page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Revolver in Hand, Lining the Ditches: Holding Fast and Fighting Back in Loyalist Monaghan
Loyalism in Monaghan, 1910-1920
Raided: Attacks on Protestant Houses in 1920
The Loyalist Response
'B' Specials and Armed Orangemen
The Rosslea Loyalist Reprisals and Their Aftermath
'Burn Them and Their Houses': IRA Counter-Reprisals for Roslea
Fighting Back: The Endurance of Loyalist Resistance
Adaptation, Resilience and Decline
Conclusion
Chapter 3 Closing the Gates: Loyalist Paramilitaries and Resistance in Donegal
The UVF Subaltern Generation
'Faithful Service': Resistance and Derry's Debt, 1920-1921
Holding Out: Armed Negotiation and Deterrent Violence in East Donegal, 1922-1923
The Orange Boys of Pettigo: Vigilantism, Vengeance and Negotiation
Loyalists and the Free State after the Civil War
Conclusion
Chapter 4 A Toothless Hound of Ulster?: Paramilitarism in Cavan
The Foundations of Ulster Militancy in Cavan
Loyalist Defence and Defiance in Cavan during 1920-1921
Getting Tough: The IRA and Loyalists in North-West Cavan
Surviving the Civil War
Legacies
Conclusion
Chapter 5 The Last Ditch: Three-County Loyalist Militancy in Northern Ireland
John Nixon's Revenge: A Template of Loyalist Violence
Legacies and New Troubles
Guarding Ulster's New Frontier
Vanguard: Three-County Loyalists Involvement in Politics and Paramilitarism in Northern Ireland
Conclusion
Chapter 6 A Suspect Population: Intergenerational Memory and Vengeance
The Ties that Bind: The Loyal Orders and Old Fears Renewed
Serving the Crown Still: Military and Police Service
Targeting a 'Fifth Column': Spies, Malice and Murder
Killing Billy Fox
Ross Hearst and the Orangemen of Glasslough
The Real Spy? George Poyntz, the IRA and the UDA
Conclusion
Chapter 7 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

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