Unionist Myths 1912–1985

Jackson, Alvin

doi:10.1093/past/136.1.164

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“…He bequeathed complex legacies to his compatriots in the North, including legacies of dangerous brinkmanship. 26 He simultaneously embraced and owned his standing as a state-builder in Northern Ireland -while privately complaining at length about the new dispensations of the 1920s.…”

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Redmond and Carson: Bloodshed, Borders and the Union State

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2019

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Redmond and Carson: Bloodshed, Borders and the Union State

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“…For Irish republicans, the spaces of urban civic culture represent the Union with Britain that they seek to reverse, and as a result the City Hall in particular has been the focus of republican protest. Historically, the City Hall also has relevance for Unionists through its role as the symbolic focal point for resistance to Home Rule in 1912 and also for protests against the Anglo-Irish Agreement in 1985 (Jackson, 1992). Yet even if it cannot be viewed as neutral per se, in practice the city centre remains an 'important shared space' (Boal, 1982: 694), albeit one in which 'people are often happier to be closer to the particular road that leads to and from their segregated neighbourhood' (Bairner, 2006: 129).…”

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Redrawing cognitive maps of conflict: Lost spaces and forgetting in the centre of Belfast

Switzer

McDowell

2009

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Northern Ireland is currently emerging from three decades of conflict. Belfast, its largest city, experienced some of the worst levels of violence. During these 'Troubles' it became a highly segregated city in which its citizens understandings of the urban fabric were mediated through their ethno-religious backgrounds. Yet as the region moves into a post-conflict situation, Belfast has been undergoing rapid physical change. One result of this has been an effort to remove evidence of the conflict from the 'new' city centre, despite more than 70 conflict-related deaths having occurred there. The article uses the example of Belfast city centre to explore: (1) how 'normalization' strategies employed after conflict seek to reshape cognitive understandings of violent spaces through reconstruction; and (2) how individual memory retains the potential to disrupt these efforts. We argue that the highly regimented spatial patterns of Troubles commemoration in Belfast may influence how the city deals with the challenges of its violent past.

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“…'Ulster' now needed its history and myths were not lacking. 75 Ulstermen, locally or London-based, produced serious but justificatory studies. 76 A Welsh cultural geographer saw in the distinctiveness he identified in Ulster megaliths a pointer to its twentieth-century separateness.…”

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The ‘British Space’: World‐Empire‐Continent‐Nation‐Region‐Locality: A Historiographical Problem

Robbins

2009

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What ‘British history’ may be taken to mean is complex. No simple solution to getting it ‘in focus’ exists. On one level, given the global impact of Britain since 1800, culturally and commercially, and the existence of ‘English‐speaking Peoples’, it is an aspect of ‘world history’ and cannot be understood without this wide‐ranging context. That manifested itself most specifically in the expansion of the British Empire, its consolidation and subsequent disintegration. ‘Great Britain’ and ‘Greater Britain’, for some minds, constituted the ‘whole’. Yet, however global the mindset of policy‐makers (and perhaps people) became, the history of the British Isles could not be detached from that of the European continent. ‘Isolation’ could only ever be ‘relative’. On another level, looking inwards, the ‘British Space’ has embraced a multiplicity of overlapping, interlinked, yet distinct nations, regions and localities. Sometimes such identities have been forged or strengthened in opposition to ‘Britishness’, sometimes they have coexisted contentedly with it. At whatever level, the ‘British space’ is inherently a contested one.

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Unionist Myths 1912–1985

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Redmond and Carson: Bloodshed, Borders and the Union State

Redmond and Carson: Bloodshed, Borders and the Union State

Redrawing cognitive maps of conflict: Lost spaces and forgetting in the centre of Belfast

The ‘British Space’: World‐Empire‐Continent‐Nation‐Region‐Locality: A Historiographical Problem

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