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	Northern Ireland Quotations :: Unionism
		Government in Northern Ireland for 50 years has been one-Party as well as single-Party-that is to say that the same Party has throughout provided a Parliamentary majority and an executive based on that majority.
		Moreover it must be constantly borne in mind that this situation has arisen in Northern Ireland because the voters at successive free and fair elections have returned to power a Party pledged as its fundamental principle to maintain the constitutional link between Northern Ireland and Great Britain.
		Their unionism is much more like that of Terrence O’Neill in deriving from their sense of being ‘British’ rather than from strong attachment to the land and sacred history of Ulster.
	www.philipjohnston.com /quot/ni_union.htm (1512 words)

	THE BLANKET * Index: Current Articles
		The last generation has witnessed unionism indulge in the luxury of internecine fragmentation to the point that some groups are reduced to ‘fringe’ status, such is their insignificance.
		The New Unionism of Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble is in danger of suffering the same fate as former Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill who equally tried to harmonise relations with the Republic and bring republicanism in from the icy political cold.
		Nor is it an attempt to repackage the concept of civic unionism as outlined by the academic Norman Porter because his all-Ireland dimension would appear to be based on the outright surrender of Northern unionism to Irish imperialism.
	lark.phoblacht.net /jc05123g.html (2167 words)

	Unionism in Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Unionism is centred on an identification with Britishness.
		Unionism in the newly-independent southern state, known from 1922 as the Irish Free State, declined with many ex-Unionists opting to associate with Nationalist parties such as Cumann na nGaedhael and the Centre Party.
		One of the strangest situations in Northern Ireland is that the Protestant fundamentalist leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, the Rev. Ian Paisley, claims to attract some Catholic votes in his constituency at elections to the House of Commons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unionism_(Ireland) (4991 words)

	Revolutionary Unionism
		The last generation has witnessed unionism indulge in the luxury of internecine fragmentation to the point that some groups are reduced to 'fringe' status, such is their insignificance.
		If unionism does not experience this revolution, but clings to past ideologies, in less than a generation it will become nothing more than an ageing fan club for the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 and a memorial to the opening day of the Battle of the Somme in 1916.
		Nor is it an attempt to repackage the concept of civic unionism as outlined by the academic Norman Porter because his all-Ireland dimension would appear to be based on the outright surrender of Northern unionism to Irish imperialism.
	www.openrepublic.org /open_republic/20050701_vol1_no1/articles/20050619_ru.htm (1965 words)

	Northern Irish
		So-called ‘loyalists’ tend towards ‘fundamentalist Protestantism, conditional unionism, and an Ulster identity.’[8] This overwhelmingly Presbyterian and working-class constituency is represented by the Democratic Unionist Party of the charismatic Ian Paisley and, increasingly, by smaller, secular loyalist parties such as the Progressive Unionist Party and the Ulster Democratic Party, which speak for various paramilitary factions.
		This last possibility is inherent in Aughey’s assertion that unionism may be seen as a form of ‘constitutional patriotism,’ a rational adherence to an all-protecting constitution, that predates the theorising of Jürgen Habermas and Attracta Ingram.
		The relevant concept in Unionism, Aughey argues, is not the ‘nation’ of Protestant Scots or English, but rather the ‘citizen.’[19] According to this interpretation, unionism is a democratic citizenship ideal, embracing different nations, religions and colours as equal citizens under the authority of the British state.
	lilt.ilstu.edu /critique/fall2001docs/tdonnelly.htm (4090 words)

	Scotch-Irish / Ulster-Scots Forums > LIBERTY, DEMOCRACY AND THE UNION (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It also reminds us that Unionism in Northern Ireland is not simply a provincial reflex, but an integral component of a larger Unionist tradition that underpins the existence of the United Kingdom itself.
		It is true that, historically, Unionism has not made this clear enough to nationalists, so its recent efforts to welcome them on an equal basis into every sphere of public life in Northern Ireland must be encouraged in the strongest possible terms.
		During the spring of 1998, the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce invited various party leaders and public officials to discuss their views on the state of Northern Ireland's economy.
	www.scotchirish.net /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t1592.html (5483 words)

	A journal of protest and dissent
		At the dawn of the 21st century British Unionism appears to be in terminal decline.
		By failing to recognize the changing nature of the UK they have allowed Unionism to stagnate to a point where many see it as a protest movement, devoted to the preservation of institutions and morality conceived in the19th century.
		The present peace process in Northern Ireland is built on political arrangements advocated by a generation of Loyalists, incarcerated for resisting violent nationalism.
	lark.phoblacht.net /whatfuture.htm (898 words)

	Irish Labour's missed opportunities
		Indeed, this is the logical conclusion of reformism in the Northern Ireland context.
		Still tied to Unionism, the enthusiasm for the NILP waned and the movement sparked by the events of 1932 was left directionless.
		But this was not because of their pandering to Unionism (which had still not been overt enough for Midgley!), but because of their association with the progressive policies of the British Labour Party, and reflected the huge swing to the left in society; even the Northern Ireland Communist Party picked up support.
	www.marxist.com /history/labireland2.html (2429 words)

	Irish Quarterly Review - Studies - Bernie
		Development of a regional/ Northern Ireland identity which is not necessarily exclusively British or Irish (in the old senses).
		That is, part of a UK which has been a very successful multinational state embracing not only Northern Ireland but also all the diversity of England, Scotland and Wales as well as many ethnic minority groups over the last one hundred years.
		Common sense philosophy, practicality and an empirical attitude to life, attitudes which were significant in the Britain, Ireland and America of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, are still found in Northern Ireland.
	www.jesuit.ie /studies/articles/2000/000910.htm (1929 words)

	The limits of "New Unionism": David Trimble and the Ulster Unionist Party Eire-Ireland:Journal of Irish ...
		In the case of unionism, much of the academic discussion that has occurred has tried to identify those components of unionist ideology that would be most conducive to the forging of some sort of political accommodation with nationalists and republicans.
		Various sources of "new" or "civic" unionism have been identified, but these have tended to be defined as intellectual currents or if they have a party political basis to be sought among the fringe political formations of unionism.
		Yet those in the upper reaches of the Northern Ireland Office who were aghast at Trimble's election misread both the man and the circumstances of his victory.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FKX/is_1-2_39/ai_n6150066 (990 words)

	Books - Main
		Ulster Unionism and the Peace Process in No...
		If I was trapped on a desert island - leave me these
		Books to momentarily escape from this dull world.
	astore.amazon.co.uk /sluggerotoole-21 (28 words)

	nipolitics.com -> Northern Ireland Politics - the politics of war and peace
		Arthur Aughey’s Under Siege: Ulster Unionism and the Anglo-Irish Agreement, Blackstaff, 1989 is a meticulous study of an important period in unionist politics.
		The problem with much comparative analysis on Northern Ireland is the crudity of its assumptions and the distortions that it attempts to impose on the conflict.
		Frank Wright’s Northern Ireland: A Comparative Analysis, Gill and Macmillan, 1987 is, at times, a difficult read but his study was a pioneering effort to stand back and consider different vantage points for understanding the conflict in Northern Ireland.
	www.nipolitics.com /academicliterature.html (3432 words)

	Nationalism and Unionism - Cambridge University Press
		Ireland and British Politics in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
		Nationalism and Unionism is part of the Irish History in Perspective series of pupils' and teachers' books, and has been written for the Northern Ireland curriculum.
		Nationalism and Unionism is the third book in the series and covers the period from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries.
	www.cup.cam.ac.uk /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521466059 (204 words)

	Obelus.org \| Ulster Unionism: dead but not gone (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Northern Ireland has nothing to lose but its subsidies, while the south is rich and successful.
		Ulster Unionism has always been a reactionary movement: with the deliquesence of its main bogeyman, the IRA, it now has little or nothing to react against.
		Ian Paisley's desperate attempts to keep the enemy alive during what may well be Northern Ireland's brightest moment for peace reached an apogee of absurdity with his insulting claim that the two clergymen acting as scrutineers of the disarmament process were 'IRA appointees'.
	www.obelus.org /index.php?artID=11 (1308 words)

	Belfast Telegraph (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is not too difficult to work out the causes of unionism's Armageddon, especially in Northern Ireland where the likelihood of defeat, if not on the scale of the election, was widely anticipated much more than it was in London.
		However, for those concerned either about the future of the UUP or the stability of Northern Ireland, it is essential to look beyond the reasons for the catalytic results of May 5.
		Also at risk is the long-term future of one of Ireland's oldest political parties and the future of consensual politics in the north.
	www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk /news/letters/story.jsp?story=638807 (608 words)

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		According to historical arguments, unionism and the northern state are inherently rooted in the British/English colonization of Ireland.
		Against this "democratic" case for a united Ireland, unionism ultimately is said to rest on force, threat, and British enforcement of the unionist veto.
		In short, northern Irish unionism has been (and is) expressed in some discriminatory or reactionary modes, but there are many exceptions and extenuating circumstances, and surely there is not enough evidence to justify the highly confrontational view that unionism is substantially more unreconstructed, supremacist, or illegitimate than Irish nationalism or (especially) republicanism.
	www.mtsu.edu /~ceb3h/review.htm (10670 words)

	'The Troubles':Northern Ireland 1968-1998 - theme 4 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Unionism, Protestantism and Loyalism in Northern Ireland, London, pp.
		Gallagher, Tom, (1981), ‘Religion, reaction, and revolt in Northern Ireland: the impact of Paisleyism in Ulster’, in Journal of Church and State, 23 (3), pp.
		Nesbitt, Dermot, (1995), Unionism Restated: An Analysis of the Ulster Unionist Party’s “Statement of Aims”, Belfast.
	www2.warwick.ac.uk /fac/arts/history/undergrad/modules/hi385/theme4 (277 words)

	James Connolly: Socialist Unity in Ireland (1911) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		All thoughtful men and women who observe the political situations of their countries must realise that Ireland is on the verge of one of the most momentous constitutional changes in her history.
		The Socialist Party of Ireland considers itself the only International Party in Ireland, since its conception of Internationalism is that of a free federation of free peoples, whereas that of the Belfast branches of the I.L.P. seems scarcely distinguishable from Imperialism, the merging of subjugated peoples in the political system of their conquerors.
		The Socialist Party of Ireland asks them what harm can come from organising on the basis of Irish political life, in view of the fact that in a few years some form of legislative independence is sure to be established in Ireland.
	www.marxists.org /archive/connolly/1911/connwalk/1-socunity.htm (1241 words)

	Amazon.com: Ulster Unionism and British National Identity Since 1885: Books: James Loughlin (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This in itself is not surprising since stark images of conflict are prominent in representations of contemporary Northern Ireland.
		However, focus on local conflict in Northern Ireland often carries the assumption (which such analyses fail to explore) that surrounding societies and identities without comparable conflict (principally Britain) represent some sort of norm.
		Loughlin's hypothesis is open to the charge of teleology since he has determined at the outset to investigate Ulster Unionism primarily in a British context, but this charge is no less valid against historians who investigate Northern Ireland in an Irish context.
	www.amazon.com /Ulster-Unionism-British-National-Identity/dp/0861878450 (821 words)

	The Nationalism Project: Suggested Readings About Northern Ireland
		Irish Unionism, One: The Anglo-Irish and the New Ireland, 1885-1922, Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1972.
		Ulster Unionism and the Origins of Northern Ireland, 1886-1922.
		Unionist Politics and the Politics of Unionism since the Anglo-Irish Agreement.
	www.nationalismproject.org /suggested/nireland.html (146 words)

	Unionism in Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Unionism, in Ireland, is a belief in the desirability of a full constitutional and institutional relationship between Ireland and the United Kingdom based on the structures of the Act of Union 1800 which had merged both states together on 1801.
		Moderate unionists who support the principle of equal citizenship between Northern Ireland and Great Britain have campaigned for other British political parties to organise and contest elections in the province.
		The British Republic Campaign has no opinion on the union apart from the assumption that Northern Ireland should accept an elected head of state if a republic is achieved [7].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ulster_Unionism (4986 words)

	Ireland 1850-1972 - Reading list (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Travers, Pauric (1988), Settlements and Divisions: Ireland 1870-1922.
		Vaughan, W.E., (1994), Landlords and Tenants in Mid-Victorian Ireland.
		MacPherson, James, (2001) ‘“Ireland begins in the home”: women, Irish national identity and the domestic sphere in the Irish Homestead, 1896-1912’, Eire-Ireland, xxxvi, 3-4, pp.
	www2.warwick.ac.uk /fac/arts/history/undergrad/modules/hi143/rdglist (4191 words)

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