The Ulster Unionist Party, 1882-1973
Author : John Fitzsimons Harbinson
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,58 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Political Science
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Author : John Fitzsimons Harbinson
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,58 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Political Science
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Author : Graham Walker
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 38,92 MB
Release : 2004-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780719061097
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Author : John Fitzsimons Harbinson
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,87 MB
Release : 1972
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Author : Thomas Hennessey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 37,89 MB
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0192513192
The Ulster Unionist Party: Country Before Party? uses unprecedented access to the party that dominated Northern Ireland politics for decades to assess the reasons for its decline and to analyse whether it can recover. Having helped produce the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) struggled to deliver the deal amid unease over aspects of what its leadership negotiated. Paramilitary prisoner releases, policing changes, and power-sharing with the republican 'enemy' were all controversial. As the UUP leader won a Nobel Peace Prize, his party began to lost elections. For the UUP leadership, acceptance of change was the right thing to do for Northern Ireland - a case of putting country before party. The decades since the peace agreement have seen the UUP eclipsed by the rival Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) even though most of what the UUP agreed in 1998 has remained in place. This book examines the travails of the UUP in recent times. It draws upon the first-ever survey of UUP members and a wide range of interviews, including with the five most recent leaders of the party, to analyse the reasons for its reverses and the capacity to revive. The volume assesses why the UUP's (still sizeable) membership remains loyal and discusses what the UUP and unionism means to those members, in terms of loyalty, policy, national and religious identity, views of other parties and what a shared future in Northern Ireland will constitute. Amid Brexit and talk of a border poll, crises of devolved government, rows with republicans and intra-unionist tensions, how secure and confident does the UUP membership feel about Northern Ireland's future? Written by the same expert team that produced an award-winning book on the DUP, this book is indispensable to understanding parties and political change in divided societies.
Author : John Fitzsimons Harbinson
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 34,40 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Political Science
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Author : Patrick Buckland
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,73 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Ireland
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Author : Ulster Unionist Party
Publisher :
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 32,87 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Northern Ireland
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Author : John Fitzsimons Harbinson
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 45,85 MB
Release : 1972
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Author : Ulster Unionist Party
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Page : 11 pages
File Size : 47,95 MB
Release : 1991*
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Author : James Loughlin
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 23,76 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
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Much has been written on the Irish problem and on the political manifestations of Ulster Unionism, but the history of Unionist ideology has been relatively neglected. James Loughlin aims to correct this and to discuss the relationship of Unionism to the idea of Britishness, demonstrating that the central element of Unionism was its rejection of Irish nationalism and its firm embracing of British national identity, particularly with regard to the monarchy, and membership of the wider British nation. The author pays close attention to primary sources, especially local newspapers, and thus reveals the regional variations in the character of Unionism.