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Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on March 18, 2009
Community Development Journal 2009 44(2):270-273; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsp011
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Unionism and Orangeism in Northern Ireland Since 1945: the Decline of the Loyal Family

Denis O'Hearn

Department of Sociology, Binghamton University, State University of New York

email: dohearn@binghamton.edu

Henry Patterson and Eric Kaufmann 2007, xii+269 pp., ISBN 978 0 7190 7744 9, Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK, £14.99.

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Henry Patterson, along with co-author Eric Kaufmann, has returned to explore a topic he and co-authors analyzed so many years ago: the Unionist ruling class and the Northern Irish state. Unlike The State in Northern Ireland, 1921–1972, which Patterson published along with Paul Bew and Peter Gibbon in 1979, however, the subject of the current book is not Ulster Unionism rampant but Ulster Unionism post-decline. For in those intervening years, the party went through name changes, governmental changes, several different leaders, and a number of crises that finally bit them in their collective arse with the rise of the Democratic Unionist Party to hegemony within the unionist family. This book, however, is not so much a general history or analysis . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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