Eric P Kaufmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 9344757 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric P Kaufmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric P |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaufmann |
| SIGNATURE | KAUFMANN E P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Abbreviations and Main Sources
The Battle of Drumcree
In 1995, the Orange Order entered an increasingly turbulent phase of its existence, fraught with danger for the organization. On the face of it, this is a puzzling development. Republican guns had largely fallen silent with the IRA ceasefire negotiated through back-channel diplomacy between Dublin, London, the SDLP, and Sinn Fein. This process may have alienated Unionists from the British, but it should not have threatened the Order. The problem …
Cracks in the Establishment: Orange Opposition to O ’Neill, 1963–1969
James Craig, John Andrews, and Basil Brooke (Lord Brookeborough) were the only three individuals to serve as Prime Minister of Northern Ireland between 1921 and 1963, reflecting the high degree of stability of the Stormont regime. The Ulster Protestant political elite was organically linked with the Order, from which it had built its stock of political capital and learned its communal traditions. Hence Craig remarked in 1934, ’I am an Orangeman f…
Orangeism under Fire: Negotiating the Troubles, 1969–1972
The Order wasted no time in meeting the new Prime Minister, James Chichester-Clark, to press its views for two hours on issues such as law and order, the reshaping of local government and the franchise, funding for the Catholic Mater Hospital, and plans for the fiftieth anniversary of Northern Ireland. Orange– UUP unity was symbolized by Chichester-Clark ’s Minister of Development, Brian Faulkner. Faulkner at this point maintained a hardline repu…
Segmenting the Orange: The Future of Orangeism in the Twenty-First Century
Parading is the issue which most concerns Orangemen today, but membership loss is the most pressing long-term concern, a lightning rod used by both hardliners and moderates to agitate for change. ‘For many years, the Orange Institution has been in decline. Our membership has decreased alarmingly, ‘ thundered the Orange Banner, official organ of the SOD. ‘Managing our decline is no longer acceptable . . . If the Orange institution is not to die a …
Conclusion
The history of the Orange Order since 1963 is one of modernization. The secularizing, individualist, egalitarian ethos which swept through all Western societies in the sixties was refracted by the particular environment of Northern Ireland into a unique trajectory of change. Instead of ushering in an age of liberal individualism, ethnic decline, and lifestyle subcultures, modernity led to a rise in ethnic fundamentalism among the generations whic…
Friday Agreement
We saw that the rise in parade-related conflict from 1995 led to major convulsions within the Order as its cultural power was diminished by residents ‘ groups and RUC-backed parading restrictions. In early 1998, the historic Good Friday Agreement (GFA), signed by David Trimble ’s UUP, the SDLP, and Sinn Fein, was to shatter Orangeism ’s political certainties. These opened new divisions within the Order which largely mapped onto the traditionalist…
Title Pages
Unity in the Face of Treachery, 1972–1977
The turbulent period 1968– 72 saw the Orange Order ’s membership partly recover from its modest post-1961 decline. Some of the new working-class and rural recruits were drawn to the Order as a self-defence organization, but if they expected to join a paramilitary organization, these hopes were soon dashed by an Institution still wedded to traditional principles of respect for law and order. By 1974– 5, membership had sunk to its 1968 level and a …
From Victory to Defeat: Drumcree, 1996–1998
As the second Drumcree marching season approached in 1996, a propaganda war broke out between Loyalists and Republicans, and the RUC Chief Constable, Hugh Annesley, kept both sides guessing as to his final decision. In a reprise of 1995, Orangemen, joined by many paramilitary elements, began massing in their thousands. In the crowd, different currents collided. Though united in their determination to get the march down the road, David Trimble, Ia…
Dedication
The War against the Parades Commission
Parading has always been the top priority for the Orange Institution, and its significance for the Order cannot be reduced to the wider Unionist desire to assert communal dominance. Power over space plays a role, as Jarman and Bryan point out, but marching also has a meaning apart from the political and constitutional contest between Unionists and Nationalists. We see this in politically quiescent places like Rossnowlagh (Eire), Southport (Englan…
Stable Rejectionism: The Smyth–Molyneaux Axis, 1978–1995
Politically, as mentioned, the late 1970s proved a quiet period. James Molyneaux, the UUP Westminster MP, had increasingly emerged as Unionist leader along with his confederate Enoch Powell. Martin Smyth, as a leading UUP Convention member (1975– 7) and in 1982 a new Westminster MP, was in close contact with Molyneaux. Molyneaux knew that the return of Stormont was—for the moment—a dead letter but remained the long-term goal. Realizing that devol…
The Orange Order: A Contemporary Northern Irish History
Based on unprecedented access to the Order’s internal documents, this book provides the first systematic social history of the Orange Order - the Protestant association dedicated to maintaining the British connection in Northern Ireland. Kaufmann charts the Order’s path from the peak of its influence, in the early 1960s, to its present-day crisis. Along the way, he sketches a portrait of many of Orangeism’s leading figures, from ex-Prime Minister…
Rethinking Ethnicity
The impact of liberal globalization and multiculturalism means that nations are under pressure to transform their national identities from an ethnic to a civic mode. This has led, in many cases, to dominant ethnic decline, but also to its peripheral revival in the form of far right politics. At the same time, the growth of mass democracy and the decline of post-colonial and Cold War state unity in the developing world has opened the floodgates fo…
Rethinking Ethnicity: Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities
The Orange Order: A Contemporary Northern Irish History
Based on unprecedented access to the Order’s internal documents, this book provides the first systematic social history of the Orange Order - the Protestant association dedicated to maintaining the British connection in Northern Ireland. Kaufmann charts the Order’s path from the peak of its influence, in the early 1960s, to its present-day crisis. Along the way, he sketches a portrait of many of Orangeism’s leading figures, from ex-Prime Minister…
Rethinking Ethnicity
The impact of liberal globalization and multiculturalism means that nations are under pressure to transform their national identities from an ethnic to a civic mode. This has led, in many cases, to dominant ethnic decline, but also to its peripheral revival in the form of far right politics. At the same time, the growth of mass democracy and the decline of post-colonial and Cold War state unity in the developing world has opened the floodgates fo…
Rethinking Ethnicity: Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities
Abbreviations and Main Sources
The Battle of Drumcree
In 1995, the Orange Order entered an increasingly turbulent phase of its existence, fraught with danger for the organization. On the face of it, this is a puzzling development. Republican guns had largely fallen silent with the IRA ceasefire negotiated through back-channel diplomacy between Dublin, London, the SDLP, and Sinn Fein. This process may have alienated Unionists from the British, but it should not have threatened the Order. The problem …
Cracks in the Establishment: Orange Opposition to O ’Neill, 1963–1969
James Craig, John Andrews, and Basil Brooke (Lord Brookeborough) were the only three individuals to serve as Prime Minister of Northern Ireland between 1921 and 1963, reflecting the high degree of stability of the Stormont regime. The Ulster Protestant political elite was organically linked with the Order, from which it had built its stock of political capital and learned its communal traditions. Hence Craig remarked in 1934, ’I am an Orangeman f…
Orangeism under Fire: Negotiating the Troubles, 1969–1972
The Order wasted no time in meeting the new Prime Minister, James Chichester-Clark, to press its views for two hours on issues such as law and order, the reshaping of local government and the franchise, funding for the Catholic Mater Hospital, and plans for the fiftieth anniversary of Northern Ireland. Orange– UUP unity was symbolized by Chichester-Clark ’s Minister of Development, Brian Faulkner. Faulkner at this point maintained a hardline repu…
Segmenting the Orange: The Future of Orangeism in the Twenty-First Century
Parading is the issue which most concerns Orangemen today, but membership loss is the most pressing long-term concern, a lightning rod used by both hardliners and moderates to agitate for change. ‘For many years, the Orange Institution has been in decline. Our membership has decreased alarmingly, ‘ thundered the Orange Banner, official organ of the SOD. ‘Managing our decline is no longer acceptable . . . If the Orange institution is not to die a …
Conclusion
The history of the Orange Order since 1963 is one of modernization. The secularizing, individualist, egalitarian ethos which swept through all Western societies in the sixties was refracted by the particular environment of Northern Ireland into a unique trajectory of change. Instead of ushering in an age of liberal individualism, ethnic decline, and lifestyle subcultures, modernity led to a rise in ethnic fundamentalism among the generations whic…
Friday Agreement
We saw that the rise in parade-related conflict from 1995 led to major convulsions within the Order as its cultural power was diminished by residents ‘ groups and RUC-backed parading restrictions. In early 1998, the historic Good Friday Agreement (GFA), signed by David Trimble ’s UUP, the SDLP, and Sinn Fein, was to shatter Orangeism ’s political certainties. These opened new divisions within the Order which largely mapped onto the traditionalist…
Title Pages
Unity in the Face of Treachery, 1972–1977
The turbulent period 1968– 72 saw the Orange Order ’s membership partly recover from its modest post-1961 decline. Some of the new working-class and rural recruits were drawn to the Order as a self-defence organization, but if they expected to join a paramilitary organization, these hopes were soon dashed by an Institution still wedded to traditional principles of respect for law and order. By 1974– 5, membership had sunk to its 1968 level and a …
From Victory to Defeat: Drumcree, 1996–1998
As the second Drumcree marching season approached in 1996, a propaganda war broke out between Loyalists and Republicans, and the RUC Chief Constable, Hugh Annesley, kept both sides guessing as to his final decision. In a reprise of 1995, Orangemen, joined by many paramilitary elements, began massing in their thousands. In the crowd, different currents collided. Though united in their determination to get the march down the road, David Trimble, Ia…
Dedication
The War against the Parades Commission
Parading has always been the top priority for the Orange Institution, and its significance for the Order cannot be reduced to the wider Unionist desire to assert communal dominance. Power over space plays a role, as Jarman and Bryan point out, but marching also has a meaning apart from the political and constitutional contest between Unionists and Nationalists. We see this in politically quiescent places like Rossnowlagh (Eire), Southport (Englan…
Stable Rejectionism: The Smyth–Molyneaux Axis, 1978–1995
Politically, as mentioned, the late 1970s proved a quiet period. James Molyneaux, the UUP Westminster MP, had increasingly emerged as Unionist leader along with his confederate Enoch Powell. Martin Smyth, as a leading UUP Convention member (1975– 7) and in 1982 a new Westminster MP, was in close contact with Molyneaux. Molyneaux knew that the return of Stormont was—for the moment—a dead letter but remained the long-term goal. Realizing that devol…
The Orange Order: A Contemporary Northern Irish History
Based on unprecedented access to the Order’s internal documents, this book provides the first systematic social history of the Orange Order - the Protestant association dedicated to maintaining the British connection in Northern Ireland. Kaufmann charts the Order’s path from the peak of its influence, in the early 1960s, to its present-day crisis. Along the way, he sketches a portrait of many of Orangeism’s leading figures, from ex-Prime Minister…
Law (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Irish and British Studies (10 works) · History (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art history (3 works) · Prime minister (3 works) · Protestantism (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works)