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Contemporary Unionism and the tactics of resistance

Dixon, Paul (University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2002)

This paper emphasises the importance of the political context for shaping unionist tactics for defending the Union and resisting Irish unity. Some draw a sharp dichotomy between “constitutional” and “unconstitutional” ...
Redefining Loyalism : a political perspective ; an academic perspective

Ervine, David ; McAuley, James W. (University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2001)

A POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE: Although loyalism in its modern sense has been around since the 1920s, it acquired its present shape only at the beginning of the 1970s. Then it was reborn in paramilitary form, and was used by ...
Redefining Unionism : a political perspective ; an academic perspective

Nesbitt, Dermot ; English, Richard (University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2001)

REDEFINING UNIONISM : A POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE The main unionist political demand in the years immediately after 1972 was for the return of the Northern Ireland parliament based on the principle of majority rule. ...
Resistance, obstruction and agenda-setting : the hidden politics of the Northern Ireland settlement

McGrattan, Cillian (University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2009)

This paper examines Ulster unionism’s responses to and its increased disaffection from political developments in Northern Ireland since the 1990s. I suggest that Ulster unionist politics and, by way of extrapolation, ...