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Author:

Parr, Connal, author.

Title:

Inventing the myth : political passions and the Ulster Protestant imagination / Connal Parr.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

ix, 294 pages : 23 cm.

Subject:

Protestants--Political activity--Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)
Northern Ireland--History.
Protestants in literature.
Northern Ireland--In literature.
Literature.
Protestants in literature.
Protestants--Political activity.
Ireland--Ulster.
Northern Ireland.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-282) and index.

Contents:

Words as weapons: Northern Ireland's ongoing cultural wars -- The strange radicalism of Thomas Carnduff and St. John Ervine -- John Hewitt, Sam Thompson, and a lost labour culture -- Stewart Parker, the UWC strike of May 1974, and prisons -- Ron Hutchinson, Graham Reid, and the Hard Eighties -- The anger and energy of Gary Mitchell -- Loyal women? Marie Jones and Christina Reid -- Conclusion.

Summary:

This book approaches Ulster Protestantism through its theatrical and cultural intersection with politics, re-establishing a forgotten history and engaging with contemporary debates. Anchored by the perspectives of ten writers - some of whom have been notably active in political life - it uniquely examines tensions going on within. Through its exploration of class division and drama from the early twentieth century to the present, the book restores the progressive and Labour credentials of the community's recent past along with its literary repercussions, both of which appear in recent decades to have diminished. Drawing on over sixty interviews, unpublished scripts, as well as rarely-consulted archival material, it shows - contrary to a good deal of cliched polemic and safe scholarly assessment - that Ulster Protestants have historically and continually demonstrated a vigorous creative pulse as well as a tendency towards Left wing and class politics. St. John Ervine, Thomas Carnduff, John Hewitt, Sam Thompson, Stewart Parker, Graham Reid, Ron Hutchinson, Marie Jones, Christina Reid, and Gary Mitchell profoundly challenge as well as reflect their communities. Illuminating a diverse and conflicted culture stretching beyond Orange Order parades, the weaving together of the lives and work of each of the writers highlights mutual themes and insights on their identity, as if part of some grander tapestry of alternative twentieth-century Protestant culture. Ulster Protestantism's consistent delivery of such dissenting voices counters its monolithic and reactionary reputation.

ISBN:

0198791593
9780198791591

OCLC:

(OCoLC)973920987

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)