The Contested Identities of Ulster Protestants

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Beginning to Talk to ‘Billy’: Revising Southern Stereotypes of Unionism....Pages 9-23
Investigating the Protestant ‘Kaleidoscope’....Pages 24-30
Lost in Translation: Loyalism and the Media....Pages 31-38
Typical Unionists? The Politicians and their People, Past and Present....Pages 39-54
‘Doing Their Bit’: Gendering the Constitution of Protestant, Unionist and Loyalist Identities....Pages 55-69
The Re-invention of the Orange Order: Triumphalism or Orangefest?....Pages 70-82
Loyalism On Film and Out of Context....Pages 83-97
This Sporting Life: Anything to Declare? Community Allegiance, Sports and the National Question....Pages 98-112
No One Likes Us, We Don’t Care: What Is to Be (Un) Done about Ulster Protestant Identity?....Pages 113-133
Celebration and Controversy in America: At Home with the Scots-Irish Diaspora....Pages 134-146
Convergence....Pages 147-158
Labour Aristocracies, Triumphalism and Melancholy: Misconceptions of the Protestant Working-Class and Loyalist Community....Pages 159-176
To the Beat of a Different Drum: Loyalist Youth and the Culture of Marching Bands....Pages 177-190
Blood Sacrifice for Queen and Country: Paramilitarism and Political Manoeuvrings....Pages 191-206
Back Matter....Pages 207-209