Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People [Paperback]

Susan McKay (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 085640666X | ISBN-13: 978-0856406669 | Publication Date: March 2003

Presenting and analysing over 60 in-depth interviews with northern Protestants, this work aims to impart an understanding of the range and complexity of Protestant attitudes in Northern Ireland. Within the overall Protestant community there is much dissent - there are those who utterly condemn the loyalist paramilitaries, for example, and there are those paramilitaries who despise unionists who, they argue, rely on them to defend Ulster while washing their hands of responsibility. While some Protestants feel relatively comfortable about developments and would welcome an end to the notion of of a Protestant state for a Protestant people, the majority feel a sense of losing ground, of being under threat, of being betrayed.

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"Elegantly written, comprehensive and illuminating portrait of Ireland's Ulster unionist community at the turn of the twentyfirst century." --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 394 pages
• Publisher: Blackstaff Pr (March 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 085640666X
• ISBN-13: 978-0856406669
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,104,852 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars description of a fearful and paranoid people, May 25, 2006

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This review is from: Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People (Paperback)

Though Susan McKay comes from a Northern Protestant background she has moved away from that, physically as well as culturally and politically. This book portrays many NI Protestants as fearful and generally undeserving of much sympathy despite the suffering of some interviewed.