Graham Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3626857 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Graham Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Graham |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-3091-4204 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 34 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Exploring staff perspectives of working in secure care accommodation for young people
Background: Secure care accommodation is a constantly evolving, challenging work environment where staff must adapt quickly, often with limited training. High turnover and burnout are common, driven by poor working conditions, stigma, and the complex needs of residents. This review explores staff experiences, focusing on safety, wellbeing, and the challenges of caring for vulnerable young people. Methods: A systematic review was conducted followi…
Young people’s experiences of secure care
Background: There is a paucity of literature qualitatively exploring adolescents’ experiences in secure care, which is an essential consideration for future service design. We aimed to increase understanding of factors which contribute both positively and negatively to these young people’s experience. Methods: A systematic review was conducted following PRISMA guidelines. Studies were identified by searching five online databases in June 2024. Th…
Participation, agency, and youth voice in establishing school gardens
This community case study investigates the establishment of school gardens in Kenya and Papua New Guinea (PNG), focussing on engagement and participation. The gardens are intersectional interventions addressing education, health and nutrition, food security, career development, and life skills. We focus on engagement between implementing agencies and schools—including youth—during establishment as it influences garden governance, activity, and or…
Scotland and the Two Irelands
This contribution to the theme of ‘Scotland and the Two Irelands’ looks to the relationships within these islands, east and west as well as north and south, with particular reference to Scotland and Northern Ireland. It looks to the more pluralistic circumstances and ideas of the 1990s – not least as personified in the landmark work of Bernard Crick - and considers whether revisiting these would offer new possibilities in managing relationships a…
Accuracy of the Veterans Health Administration Covid-19 (Vaco) Index for predicting short-term mortality among 1307 US academic medical centre inpatients and 427 224 US Medicare patients
BACKGROUND: The Veterans Health Administration COVID-19 (VACO) Index predicts 30-day all-cause mortality in patients with COVID-19 using age, sex and pre-existing comorbidity diagnoses. The VACO Index was initially developed and validated in a nationwide cohort of US veterans-we now assess its accuracy in an academic medical centre and a nationwide US Medicare cohort. METHODS: With measures and weights previously derived and validated in US natio…
Religion, Labour, and National Questions
Through a comparative analysis of the 1924 Westminster constituency elections in West Belfast and Motherwell, this article examines how Labour campaigns sought to negotiate religious divisions and questions of national allegiance. The striking commonalities in both campaigns and constituencies highlight the precarious coalitions that Belfast and Scottish Labour sought to maintain at this time, and how religious and national identities could provi…
Awkward Prods
Through studies of four individuals, this article will explore the utility of biography as a method of disentangling strands of political allegiance in Northern Ireland during the era of the ‘old Stormont’. The four individuals – Harry Midgley, Arthur Linden Agnew, Albert McElroy and Jack Hassard – are connected by progressive strands of political activism, Protestantism and use of Ulster-Scots or British identity to support their political stanc…
Liverpool Sectarianism
On an August evening in 1970 this reviewer, then a young Glaswegian making his first visit to Liverpool, walked through the working class districts that are the focus of this study. On the initial
The Ulster Covenant and the pulse of Protestant Ulster
The signing of the Ulster Covenant on 28 September 1912 by almost 450,000 men and women was a powerful act of defiance on the part of Unionists in the context of what they perceived as the threat to their way of life represented by the Liberal Government's policy of Irish Home Rule. This article attempts to look beyond the well-studied leadership figures of Carson and Craig in order to fashion insights into the way Ulster Protestant society was m…
N orthern I reland Representation at W estminster
This article focuses on the issue of N orthern I reland's representation at W estminster. It investigates the political context of the decision to increase N orthern I reland's representation in the house of commons at W estminster from 12 members to 17 in 1978–9. Exploring this episode in more detail, it is argued, provides a more informed overall understanding of the history of devolution in the UK and of the way issues concerning N orthern I r…
Scotland's Sectarianism Problem
A series of developments during the 2010–11 football season has led to an intense public debate over the question of the nature and extent of religious sectarianism in Scotland. The Scottish National Party (SNP) government has responded with a new piece of legislation which has been widely criticised and has prompted some commentators to speculate about a political ‘own goal’. This article provides a guide to the debate around sectarianism and it…
Scotland, Northern Ireland and Devolution
This article contends that the study of the history of devolution in the UK and the contemporary academic debate over devolution and the future of the UK should involve greater consideration of Northern Ireland. Specifically, it is suggested that the search for linkages, both in historical and contemporary contexts, between Scotland and Northern Ireland around the theme of devolution and constitutional change contributes significantly to an under…
Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Devolution, 1945–1979
government set up a Royal Commission on the Constitution to examine devolution for Scotland and, to a lesser extent, Wales, it rarely reflected on the experience of Northern Ireland. By then the Province had possessed legislative devolution for almost half a century, the product of the Government of Ireland Act of 1920. When it eventually reported in 1973, the Royal Commission did include some consideration of the Northern Ireland precedent, but,…
Ideological content and institutional frameworks
This article examines the complex interactions between British national identity and the territorial identities of Northern Ireland and Scotland. We argue that the current literature on national identities in Britain misunderstands the nature of British identities in Northern Ireland and Scotland. Indeed, much of this literature wrongly defines Unionists in both of these areas. By examining the content of British national identity, a comparison o…
Unionism and Orangeism in Northern Ireland since 1945 – By Henry Patterson and Eric Kaufmann
The ‘Scotland is British’ Campaign, 1976-8
The 'Scotland is British* (SIB) campaign was launched on 23 November 1976. Its objective was to shape parliamentary and public opinion in opposition to the Labour government's Scotland and Wales Bill. SIB saw itself as providing a focus for anti-devolution feeling in Scotland in the absence of any one political party playing such a role . The campaign attempted to represent a broad swathe of interests, and it drew support from industrialists and …
Northern Ireland, British-Irish Relations and American Concerns, 1942-1956
This article considers the political impact of particular Irish controversies during the Second World War and the post-war period. It highlights the American dimension to these controversies, and examines what they reveal about different sets of inter-governmental relations, especially that of London and Belfast. The article argues that the context of wartime, and the circumstances of the post-war era, should have led to more effective cooperatio…
The Ibrox Stadium Disaster of 1971’
On 2 January 1971 66 football fans were crushed to death and 145 injured while attempting to leave Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow after the traditional New Year fixture between Rangers and Celtic, Scotla
The ulster unionist party and the bannside by‐election 1970
This article is primarily concerned with the 1970 Bannside by‐election in Northern Ireland and the political significance of this contest. It puts this event into the context of the condition of the ruling Unionist Party at this historical juncture and highlights issues concerning party organisation and mode of operation which have a contemporary resonance. It is argued that the Unionist Party fought the Bannside campaign against the challenge of…
The Lancashire Witches
1Cardiff University The Lancashire Witches: Histories and Stories Robert Poole Manchester Manchester U.P. 2002 xiv + 226 Paperback£14.99
A Tribute to Ken
Identity Questions in Contemporary Scotland
This article considers questions of religious and ethnic identity in contemporary Scotland and the continuing debate about the extent and significance of sectarianism. It does so primarily through a discussion of recent scholarly writing on the Catholic community and on Catholic-Protestant tensions, and it highlights issues such as education and in particular football. It is argued that much of this writing takes insufficient account of recent so…
Obligations of Citizenship and Demands of Faith
Protestant Ulster
This article highlights the processes by which an Ulster Protestant identity came to be fashioned, in the era of political conflict over Irish Home Rule, in accordance with ethno-religious and, more ambiguously, ethno-nationalist criteria. It explores how processes of myth-making and remembering have been central to the reproduction of this sense of identity. Finally, it considers the role played by ethnic essentialism in the contemporary period,…
The Council of the Isles and the Scotland-Northern Ireland Relationship
The British-Irish Council (BIC), colloquially known as The Council of the Isles', forms Strand Three of the Good Friday Agreement of 10 April 1998, the result of the multiparty negotiations on the future of Northern Ireland (The Agreement 1998, pp. 14-16). The BIC will comprise representatives of the British and Irish governments, devolved institutions in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and representatives of the Isle of Man and the Channel…
Unionism in Modern Ireland
This collection of essays brings together exciting, fresh work by young scholars working on vital aspects of modern Irish unionism. Its range is broad, taking in much material (literary, political, cu
Protestant Ulster
This article highlights the processes by which an Ulster Protestant identity came to be fashioned, in the era of political conflict over Irish Home Rule, in accordance with ethno-religious and, more ambiguously, ethno-nationalist criteria. It explores how processes of myth-making and remembering have been central to the reproduction of this sense of identity. Finally, it considers the role played by ethnic essentialism in the contemporary period,…
The Orange Order in Scotland Between the Wars
This paper focuses on the theme of religious conflict within the working class in inter-war Scotland. It pays particular attention to the Protestant working class of the industrial lowlands and to the role of the exclusively Protestant secret society of Irish origin, the Orange Order. It attempts to explain why the inter-war period saw an upsurge in membership of sectarian organisations like the Orange Order and their activities; and at the same …
Scotland and Northern Ireland
IN HER SUBMISSION TO THE OPSAHL HEARINGS ON THE NORTHERN Ireland problem in 1993, the literary and cultural critic Edna Longley made a simple point about the ‘Anglo-Irish Agreement’. This term for what was a pact between the UK and Republic of Ireland governments is, she argued, a misnomer: ‘[It] obscures the contested area, and panders to the belief – in both London and Dublin – that the UK is coterminous with England.’ Longley later urged that …
Identity Questions in Contemporary Scotland
This article considers questions of religious and ethnic identity in contemporary Scotland and the continuing debate about the extent and significance of sectarianism. It does so primarily through a discussion of recent scholarly writing on the Catholic community and on Catholic-Protestant tensions, and it highlights issues such as education and in particular football. It is argued that much of this writing takes insufficient account of recent so…
Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Devolution, 1945–1979
government set up a Royal Commission on the Constitution to examine devolution for Scotland and, to a lesser extent, Wales, it rarely reflected on the experience of Northern Ireland. By then the Province had possessed legislative devolution for almost half a century, the product of the Government of Ireland Act of 1920. When it eventually reported in 1973, the Royal Commission did include some consideration of the Northern Ireland precedent, but,…
Ideological content and institutional frameworks
This article examines the complex interactions between British national identity and the territorial identities of Northern Ireland and Scotland. We argue that the current literature on national identities in Britain misunderstands the nature of British identities in Northern Ireland and Scotland. Indeed, much of this literature wrongly defines Unionists in both of these areas. By examining the content of British national identity, a comparison o…
The Ibrox Stadium Disaster of 1971’
On 2 January 1971 66 football fans were crushed to death and 145 injured while attempting to leave Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow after the traditional New Year fixture between Rangers and Celtic, Scotla
Young people’s experiences of secure care
Background: There is a paucity of literature qualitatively exploring adolescents’ experiences in secure care, which is an essential consideration for future service design. We aimed to increase understanding of factors which contribute both positively and negatively to these young people’s experience. Methods: A systematic review was conducted following PRISMA guidelines. Studies were identified by searching five online databases in June 2024. Th…
The ulster unionist party and the bannside by‐election 1970
This article is primarily concerned with the 1970 Bannside by‐election in Northern Ireland and the political significance of this contest. It puts this event into the context of the condition of the ruling Unionist Party at this historical juncture and highlights issues concerning party organisation and mode of operation which have a contemporary resonance. It is argued that the Unionist Party fought the Bannside campaign against the challenge of…
The New Mixed Constitution
Religion, Labour, and National Questions
Through a comparative analysis of the 1924 Westminster constituency elections in West Belfast and Motherwell, this article examines how Labour campaigns sought to negotiate religious divisions and questions of national allegiance. The striking commonalities in both campaigns and constituencies highlight the precarious coalitions that Belfast and Scottish Labour sought to maintain at this time, and how religious and national identities could provi…
N orthern I reland Representation at W estminster
This article focuses on the issue of N orthern I reland's representation at W estminster. It investigates the political context of the decision to increase N orthern I reland's representation in the house of commons at W estminster from 12 members to 17 in 1978–9. Exploring this episode in more detail, it is argued, provides a more informed overall understanding of the history of devolution in the UK and of the way issues concerning N orthern I r…
Scotland, Northern Ireland and Devolution
This article contends that the study of the history of devolution in the UK and the contemporary academic debate over devolution and the future of the UK should involve greater consideration of Northern Ireland. Specifically, it is suggested that the search for linkages, both in historical and contemporary contexts, between Scotland and Northern Ireland around the theme of devolution and constitutional change contributes significantly to an under…
The ‘Scotland is British’ Campaign, 1976-8
The 'Scotland is British* (SIB) campaign was launched on 23 November 1976. Its objective was to shape parliamentary and public opinion in opposition to the Labour government's Scotland and Wales Bill. SIB saw itself as providing a focus for anti-devolution feeling in Scotland in the absence of any one political party playing such a role . The campaign attempted to represent a broad swathe of interests, and it drew support from industrialists and …
Northern Ireland, British-Irish Relations and American Concerns, 1942-1956
This article considers the political impact of particular Irish controversies during the Second World War and the post-war period. It highlights the American dimension to these controversies, and examines what they reveal about different sets of inter-governmental relations, especially that of London and Belfast. The article argues that the context of wartime, and the circumstances of the post-war era, should have led to more effective cooperatio…
The Council of the Isles and the Scotland-Northern Ireland Relationship
The British-Irish Council (BIC), colloquially known as The Council of the Isles', forms Strand Three of the Good Friday Agreement of 10 April 1998, the result of the multiparty negotiations on the future of Northern Ireland (The Agreement 1998, pp. 14-16). The BIC will comprise representatives of the British and Irish governments, devolved institutions in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and representatives of the Isle of Man and the Channel…
The Irish Dr Goebbels
The Easter Rising in Ireland in 1916 was an exercise in catharsis. The leaders who were executed for their part in it, particularly Patrick Pearse, conceived of an uprising as a redemptive act: their rhetoric was about the need to save Ireland from apostasy and to vindicate the timeless doctrine of separatist nationalism.1 The British reaction to the rebellion was everything those who took part in it thought it would be. The executions of fifteen…
Protestantism Before Party!’
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The Commonwealth Labour Party in Northern Ireland, 1942–7
The Commonwealth Labour Party (Northern Ireland), hereafter referred to as the C.L.P., came into existence on 19 December 1942. Its birth was the result of a split in the ranks of the Northern Ireland Labour Party (N.I.L.P.). This split centred on the personality and the political outlook of the man who had led the N.I.L.P since 1932, and who was to be leader of the C.L.P during its five-year lifespan: Harry Midgley. Midgley (1892-1957) was, by t…
Protestantism Before Party!’
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Irish Dr Goebbels
The Easter Rising in Ireland in 1916 was an exercise in catharsis. The leaders who were executed for their part in it, particularly Patrick Pearse, conceived of an uprising as a redemptive act: their rhetoric was about the need to save Ireland from apostasy and to vindicate the timeless doctrine of separatist nationalism.1 The British reaction to the rebellion was everything those who took part in it thought it would be. The executions of fifteen…
The Orange Order in Scotland Between the Wars
This paper focuses on the theme of religious conflict within the working class in inter-war Scotland. It pays particular attention to the Protestant working class of the industrial lowlands and to the role of the exclusively Protestant secret society of Irish origin, the Orange Order. It attempts to explain why the inter-war period saw an upsurge in membership of sectarian organisations like the Orange Order and their activities; and at the same …
The Constitutional Good
Constitutionalism involves the purposeful articulation of a polity's normative architecture and has the well-known function of confining power holders. The moral function of constitutionalism, however, which enables the political function, is less understood. Constitutionalism, this article argues, protects the polity by stipulating and thereby lowering its normative horizon, at the cost of obscuring answers to larger normative questions about it…
The New Mixed Constitution
Thomas Sinclair
In the Ulster Unionist pantheon of heroes Thomas Sinclair occupies a very minor position. In a recent publication celebrating the Ulster Covenant of 1912 he is identified as the Covenant’s author, yet omitted from the chapter on the leaders of the Unionist movement. 1 In Irish historiography he has also suffered comparative neglect; even in the monographs devoted to the development of Unionism as a mass movement he merits only a passing mention. …
Unionism in Modern Ireland
This collection of essays brings together exciting, fresh work by young scholars working on vital aspects of modern Irish unionism. Its range is broad, taking in much material (literary, political, cu
Frederick the Great
Scotland and Northern Ireland
IN HER SUBMISSION TO THE OPSAHL HEARINGS ON THE NORTHERN Ireland problem in 1993, the literary and cultural critic Edna Longley made a simple point about the ‘Anglo-Irish Agreement’. This term for what was a pact between the UK and Republic of Ireland governments is, she argued, a misnomer: ‘[It] obscures the contested area, and panders to the belief – in both London and Dublin – that the UK is coterminous with England.’ Longley later urged that …
The Council of the Isles and the Scotland-Northern Ireland Relationship
The British-Irish Council (BIC), colloquially known as The Council of the Isles', forms Strand Three of the Good Friday Agreement of 10 April 1998, the result of the multiparty negotiations on the future of Northern Ireland (The Agreement 1998, pp. 14-16). The BIC will comprise representatives of the British and Irish governments, devolved institutions in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and representatives of the Isle of Man and the Channel…
Obligations of Citizenship and Demands of Faith
Protestant Ulster
This article highlights the processes by which an Ulster Protestant identity came to be fashioned, in the era of political conflict over Irish Home Rule, in accordance with ethno-religious and, more ambiguously, ethno-nationalist criteria. It explores how processes of myth-making and remembering have been central to the reproduction of this sense of identity. Finally, it considers the role played by ethnic essentialism in the contemporary period,…
Identity Questions in Contemporary Scotland
This article considers questions of religious and ethnic identity in contemporary Scotland and the continuing debate about the extent and significance of sectarianism. It does so primarily through a discussion of recent scholarly writing on the Catholic community and on Catholic-Protestant tensions, and it highlights issues such as education and in particular football. It is argued that much of this writing takes insufficient account of recent so…
A Tribute to Ken
The Ibrox Stadium Disaster of 1971’
On 2 January 1971 66 football fans were crushed to death and 145 injured while attempting to leave Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow after the traditional New Year fixture between Rangers and Celtic, Scotla
The ulster unionist party and the bannside by‐election 1970
This article is primarily concerned with the 1970 Bannside by‐election in Northern Ireland and the political significance of this contest. It puts this event into the context of the condition of the ruling Unionist Party at this historical juncture and highlights issues concerning party organisation and mode of operation which have a contemporary resonance. It is argued that the Unionist Party fought the Bannside campaign against the challenge of…
The Lancashire Witches
1Cardiff University The Lancashire Witches: Histories and Stories Robert Poole Manchester Manchester U.P. 2002 xiv + 226 Paperback£14.99
The ‘Scotland is British’ Campaign, 1976-8
The 'Scotland is British* (SIB) campaign was launched on 23 November 1976. Its objective was to shape parliamentary and public opinion in opposition to the Labour government's Scotland and Wales Bill. SIB saw itself as providing a focus for anti-devolution feeling in Scotland in the absence of any one political party playing such a role . The campaign attempted to represent a broad swathe of interests, and it drew support from industrialists and …
Northern Ireland, British-Irish Relations and American Concerns, 1942-1956
This article considers the political impact of particular Irish controversies during the Second World War and the post-war period. It highlights the American dimension to these controversies, and examines what they reveal about different sets of inter-governmental relations, especially that of London and Belfast. The article argues that the context of wartime, and the circumstances of the post-war era, should have led to more effective cooperatio…
Unionism and Orangeism in Northern Ireland since 1945 – By Henry Patterson and Eric Kaufmann
Ideological content and institutional frameworks
This article examines the complex interactions between British national identity and the territorial identities of Northern Ireland and Scotland. We argue that the current literature on national identities in Britain misunderstands the nature of British identities in Northern Ireland and Scotland. Indeed, much of this literature wrongly defines Unionists in both of these areas. By examining the content of British national identity, a comparison o…
Scotland, Northern Ireland and Devolution
This article contends that the study of the history of devolution in the UK and the contemporary academic debate over devolution and the future of the UK should involve greater consideration of Northern Ireland. Specifically, it is suggested that the search for linkages, both in historical and contemporary contexts, between Scotland and Northern Ireland around the theme of devolution and constitutional change contributes significantly to an under…
Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Devolution, 1945–1979
government set up a Royal Commission on the Constitution to examine devolution for Scotland and, to a lesser extent, Wales, it rarely reflected on the experience of Northern Ireland. By then the Province had possessed legislative devolution for almost half a century, the product of the Government of Ireland Act of 1920. When it eventually reported in 1973, the Royal Commission did include some consideration of the Northern Ireland precedent, but,…
Scotland's Sectarianism Problem
A series of developments during the 2010–11 football season has led to an intense public debate over the question of the nature and extent of religious sectarianism in Scotland. The Scottish National Party (SNP) government has responded with a new piece of legislation which has been widely criticised and has prompted some commentators to speculate about a political ‘own goal’. This article provides a guide to the debate around sectarianism and it…
Political science (28 works) · Sociology (25 works) · Irish and British Studies (22 works) · Law (21 works) · Law (20 works) · History (19 works) · Politics (18 works) · History (17 works) · Scottish History and National Identity (15 works) · Ethnology (14 works)