Peering in from the window ledge of the Union: the Anglo-Irish Agreement and the attempt to bring British Conservatism to Northern Ireland

Coulter, Colin

doi:10.1080/09670882.2013.846689

Irish Studies Review

2013

DOI: 10.1080/09670882.2013.846689

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Peering in from the window ledge of the Union: the Anglo-Irish Agreement and the attempt to bring British Conservatism to Northern Ireland

Colin Coulter

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Not quite as British as Finchley: the failed attempt to bring British Conservatism to Northern Ireland

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In aprevious issue of Irish Studies Review Iexamined the unanticipated emergence in the late 1980s of as eries of Conservative associations in Northern Ireland. In this follow-up article, Iw ill seek to account for the subsequent swift and ignominious decline in the early 1990s of the Northern Irish Conservatives. While the fortunes of the Ulster Tories were undermined by an umber of contingencies -t he vagaries of parliamentary arithmetic and their own lack of political judgement foremost among them -t heir fate was sealed primarily by certain rather more structural concerns. In particular, the rapid decline of the Conservative associations in Northern Ireland owes its origins to the historically "loveless marriage" between Ulster unionists and the British state. The unionist community simply refused to vote in meaningful numbers for apolitical party at the centre of aWestminster establishment deemed hostile to the cause of the Union. In addition, the Conservative hierarchy would inevitably prove unwilling to nurture their own party associations in Northern Ireland as this "integrationist" project ran precisely counter to their own longstanding political ambitions for the region. This conflict of interests and intentions would in short order ensure the demise in all but name of the Northern Irish Conservatives. There can be few more dramatic illustrations of the mutual distrust that conjoins Ulster unionists and the British state than the string of lost deposits incurred by Conservative candidates running for office in Northern Ireland.

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Peering in from the window ledge of the Union: the Anglo-Irish Agreement and the attempt to bring British Conservatism to Northern Ireland

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Not quite as British as Finchley: the failed attempt to bring British Conservatism to Northern Ireland

Not quite as British as Finchley: the failed attempt to bring British Conservatism to Northern Ireland

‘British Rights for British Citizens’: The Campaign for ‘Equal Citizenship’ for Northern Ireland

IASIL Bibliography 2013

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