The Good Friday Agreement of 1998 gave an opportunity to remake not just political institutions but ethno-religious distinction in Northern Ireland. This paper looks at the how individuals reconstruct their way of being ...
Buckley, Anthony D.(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2010)
Ulster Protestant attitudes to, for example, history, religion or territory, have been
portrayed by scholars as full of animosity towards Catholics. In fact, Protestant culture, like any other, is enabling, giving people ...
Coakley, John(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2009)
This paper uses a large volume of data—in particular, surveys—to explore the character of Protestant identity in contemporary European states. It distinguishes three contexts. First, in the Nordic and certain adjacent ...
Mitchell, Claire(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2002)
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the responsiveness of national and religious identifications to political change amongst Protestants in Northern Ireland. I begin by theorising identification as a process of working ...
The Good Friday Agreement of 1998 gave an opportunity to remake not just political institutions but ethno-religious distinction in Northern Ireland. This paper looks at the how individuals reconstruct their way of being ...
Ganiel, Gladys(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2002)
Some of the most severe opposition to the Good Friday agreement has come from the unionist community, particularly those classified as fundamentalist Protestants. This paper seeks to correct the overemphasis on fundamentalism, ...
Europe’s traditional ethnic minorities and the conflicts over their place in the state and nation are the focus of continuing comparative research. In contrast, little attention is paid to Europe’s older religious conflicts, ...
Little attention has been paid in the recent scholarly literature to Europe's old religious conflicts - particularly those that stem from the Reformation. Yet for a long time religiously informed conflict was the principal ...
Feldman, Alice(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2003)
This paper explores the challenges posed by the ethnic diversification of contemporary Irish society for conventional understandings of and responses to issues of religion, community and politics. It argues that the ...
National identity is symbolically complex configuration, with shifts of emphasis and reprioritisations of content negotiated in contexts of power. This paper shows how they occur in one post conflict situation – Northern ...