"Southern Irish Protestants: Histories, Lives and Literature" - "" ("D'Alton Ian")(Paperback)

"This book is a reflection of - and on - my own personal journey of discovery through the medium of history. I am a 'southern Irish Protestant.' In these three words - somewhere, somehow - lie my own sense of identity. In truth, it tells more of what I'm not than what I am. Most of my fellow-citizens are quite simply 'Irish.' It would never occur to them to describe themselves as 'southern Irish Catholics.' But as Edna Longley remarked in 1989 if Catholics are born Irish, Protestants have to 'work their passage to Irishness.' A fundamental journey towards understanding identity is what this book attempts to illuminate. These essays - illuminating my development as an historian - cover six broad themes. The first looks at Protestant culture and Protestant lives. The second examines questions of historical process and cultural appropriation. The third interrogates southern Protestantism
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