The Contested Identities of Ulster Catholics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Burgess, Thomas Paul (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Religion and politics.; Great Britain-Politics and government.; Cultural policy.; Religion and sociology.; Politics and Religion.; British Politics.; Cultural Policy and Politics.; Religion and Society.

This book investigates the often-fragmented nature of Ulster Nationalist / Republican / Roman Catholic politics, culture and identity. It offers a companion publication to The Contested Identities of Ulster Protestants (2015). Historically the Catholic community of Ulster are regarded as a unified a...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction; Thomas Paul Burgess
• 2 The State We're In: - Imagining a New Republic; the Challenge to Irish Nationalism; Thomas Paul Burgess
• 3 Catholics in Northern Ireland: Changing Political Attitudes, 1968-2018; John Coakley
• 4 Rights versus Rites? Catholic women and abortion access in Northern Ireland; Claire Pierson
• 5 Tough, violent and virtually ungovernable'? Northern nationalists in the Irish Republic. A historical context; Brian Hanley
• 6 'E pluribus unum; The Elusiveness of a Singular Community Identity'; Malachi O'Doherty
• 7 The Story of Catholic Schools in Northern Ireland; past, present and possible future; Tony Gallagher
• 8 Paddy Devlin, the Labour Movement and the Catholic Community: A biographical methodology; Connal Parr
• 9 Sport, Politics and Catholics in Northern Ireland; David Hassan and Conor Murray
• 10 From the Frontlines of War to the Side-lines of Peace? Gender, Republicanism and the Peace Process; Niall Gilmartin
• 11 From Platitude to Realpolitik; Challenging Generic Designations; Tommy Mc Kearney
• 12 Meet the New Boss...Same as the Old Boss: Assessing Republican Attitudes toward the Protestant, Unionist and Loyalist Communities of Northern Ireland; Gareth Mulvenna
• 13 Ideology and Identity in the Founding Group of the Social Democratic and Labour Party: Evaluating the Life-writing of a Political Generation; Stephen Hopkins
• 14 Republican Fragmentation in the Face of Enduring Partition; Anthony McIntyre
• 15 Ambivalence in a post-conflict society: Young Catholics growing up in Northern Ireland; Aimee Smith.