Inventing the Myth - Political Passions and the Ulster Protestant Imagination

A lively and timely work about the history and politics of Ulster Protestants. The volume draws on over sixty interviews with politicians and cultural figures and focuses on ten writers whose work has reflected and challenged the views of their community.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Words as Weapons: Northern Ireland's Ongoing Culture Wars


• 2: The Strange Radicalism of Thomas Carnduff and St. John Ervine


• 3: John Hewitt, Sam Thompson, and a Lost Labour Culture


• 4: Stewart Parker, the UWC Strike of May 1974, and Prisons


• 5: Ron Hutchinson, Graham Reid, and the Hard Eighties


• 6: The Anger and Energy of Gary Mitchell


• 7: Loyal Women? Christina Reid and Marie Jones


• Conclusion

About the author

Connal Parr studied Modern History at the University of Oxford and obtained his PhD in Ulster Protestant politics and culture at Queen's University Belfast in 2013. He was Irish Government Senior Scholar for 2014-15 at Hertford College, Oxford, and went on to convene and teach a course on 20th Century Europe at Fordham University's London Centre from January to June 2016. In September 2016 he became Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow in the Humanities at Northumbria University. A board member of Etcetera Theatre Company, he has published articles in Irish Studies Review, Irish Political Studies, and the Irish Review.

Summary

A lively and timely work about the history and politics of Ulster Protestants. The volume draws on over sixty interviews with politicians and cultural figures and focuses on ten writers whose work has reflected and challenged the views of their community.

Additional text

In exploring the social and political contexts of northern Irish Protestantism, its inheritance of dissent (what Dawn Purvis, former leader of the Progressive Unionist Party refers to as "independent thought") and linking this history to the "literary imagination" and its "connection to the theatre", Parr has opened the door on the history of creative self-questioning and critical debate that is all so often passed by.

Product details

• Authors: Connal Parr, Connal (Vice Chancellor''s Research Fellow i Parr, Connal (Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow in the Humanities Parr
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9780198791591
• ISBN: 978-0-19-879159-1
• No. of pages: 314
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; European History, Political Ideologies, 20th Century, Social & cultural history, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events, Northern Ireland, Political science and theory, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Theatre Direction & Production, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Protestantism & Protestant Churches