Connal Parr

Inventing the Myth

Political Passions and the Ulster Protestant Imagination

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Produktbeschreibung

A lively and timely work about the history and politics of Ulster Protestants. The volume draws on over sixty interviews with politicians and cultural figures and focuses on ten writers whose work has reflected and challenged the views of their community.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780198791591
• ISBN-10: 0198791593
• Artikelnr.: 47868637

Autorenporträt

Connal Parr studied Modern History at the University of Oxford and obtained his PhD in Ulster Protestant politics and culture at Queen's University Belfast in 2013. He was Irish Government Senior Scholar for 2014-15 at Hertford College, Oxford, and went on to convene and teach a course on 20th Century Europe at Fordham University's London Centre from January to June 2016. In September 2016 he became Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow in the Humanities at Northumbria University. A board member of Etcetera Theatre Company, he has published articles in Irish Studies Review, Irish Political Studies, and the Irish Review.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Words as Weapons: Northern Ireland's Ongoing Culture Wars
2: The Strange Radicalism of Thomas Carnduff and St. John Ervine
3: John Hewitt, Sam Thompson, and a Lost Labour Culture
4: Stewart Parker, the UWC Strike of May 1974, and Prisons
5: Ron Hutchinson, Graham Reid, and the Hard Eighties
6: The Anger and Energy of Gary Mitchell
7: Loyal Women? Christina Reid and Marie Jones
Conclusion