Ulster and the British Problem
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20042578 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ian Mcbride (0000-0003-1027-0285, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Pages | 1-18 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Unionism in Modern Ireland (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230509849_1 |
| OpenAlex | W2398856980 |
| ISBN | 9780230509849 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 9 |
Ulster Unionism is commonly portrayed as irrational, backward and deviant. While Unionists have resisted any accommodation with Irish nationalism, the argument runs, their conditional loyalty to the Crown has obstructed the emergence of a genuine sense of Britishness. The Union is usually interpreted as a tactical alliance designed to maintain colonial privileges rather than a bona fide expression of emotional commitment to British culture and values. At the same time, loyalists have failed to invent their own distinctive Ulster nationality; consequently they are unable to articulate their political demands in the respectable language of self-determination. Instead Ulster Protestants seem trapped within religious and political attitudes derived from the seventeenth century: one historian has written that the sense of community shared by Ulster Protestants is best seen as 'an arrested development towards modern nationalism'.KeywordsNational IdentityCatholic Social TeachingBritish StateBritish HistoryHome RuleThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves
Alliance · Britishness · Immigration · Irish · Irish nationalism · Linguistics · Loyalty · Nationalism · Nationality · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Philosophy · Scottish History and National Identity
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Personal Narratives of Family and Ethnic Identity
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Protestant Alienation in Northern Ireland
Ulster unionist political divisions in the late twentieth century
Businessmen and the development of Ulster unionism, 1886–1921
Protestant Ulster
The Conservative Party and Ulster Unionism
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| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,55 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2022 (26) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |