On the Window Ledge of the Union
Colin Kidd: Loyalism v. Unionism, 7 February 2013
Belfast 400: People, Place and History
edited by S.J. Connolly.
Liverpool, 392 pp., £14.95, November 2012,978 1 84631 634 0 Show More
edited by S.J. Connolly.
Liverpool, 392 pp., £14.95, November 2012,
Ulster since 1600: Politics, Economy and Society
edited by Liam Kennedy and Philip Ollerenshaw.
Oxford, 355 pp., £35, November 2012,978 0 19 958311 9 Show More
edited by Liam Kennedy and Philip Ollerenshaw.
Oxford, 355 pp., £35, November 2012,
The Plantation of Ulster: Ideology and Practice
edited by Eamonn O Ciardha and Micheál O Siochrú.
Manchester, 269 pp., £70, October 2012,978 0 7190 8608 3 Show More
edited by Eamonn O Ciardha and Micheál O Siochrú.
Manchester, 269 pp., £70, October 2012,
The End of Ulster Loyalism?
by Peter Shirlow.
Manchester, 230 pp., £16.99, May 2012,978 0 7190 8476 8 Show More
by Peter Shirlow.
Manchester, 230 pp., £16.99, May 2012,
“... For God’s sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.’ Visiting Northern Ireland as home secretary in 1970, Reginald Maudling, whose mellow moderation verged on a slothful desire for an easy life, was understandably exasperated by the Ulster problem – but no more so than a long line of politicians, before and since. Churchill – not so easily depicted as a faint-heart – lamented in the aftermath of the First World War that, while the cataclysm had transformed the rest of Europe, the Ulster question remained as intractable as ever and politicians would once more have to pay attention to the ‘dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone ... ”
