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By Connal Parr

This ebook ways Ulster Protestantism via its theatrical and cultural intersection with politics, re-establishing a forgotten background and interesting with modern debates. Anchored by means of the views of ten writers - a few of whom were significantly energetic in political existence - it uniquely examines tensions occurring inside of. via its exploration of sophistication department and drama from the early 20th century to the current, the ebook restores the innovative and
Labour credentials of the community's contemporary previous besides its literary repercussions, either one of which seem in contemporary a long time to have reduced. Drawing on over sixty interviews, unpublished scripts, in addition to rarely-consulted archival fabric, it exhibits - opposite to a great deal of clichéd
polemic and secure scholarly overview - that Ulster Protestants have traditionally and always validated a lively artistic pulse in addition to an inclination in the direction of Left wing and sophistication politics. St. John Ervine, Thomas Carnduff, John Hewitt, Sam Thompson, Stewart Parker, Graham Reid, Ron Hutchinson, Marie Jones, Christina Reid, and Gary Mitchell profoundly problem in addition to replicate their groups. Illuminating a various and conflicted tradition stretching past Orange Order parades, the
weaving jointly of the lives and paintings of every of the writers highlights mutual subject matters and insights on their identification, as though a part of a few grander tapestry of other twentieth-century Protestant tradition. Ulster Protestantism's constant supply of such dissenting voices counters its monolithic
and reactionary reputation.

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