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As a member of the tribe, as it were, Susan MacKay was able to ask hard questions and arrive at distasteful truths.
Strongly recommended.
The book discusses interviews with many people from diverse protestant backgrounds and the reader is given a real sense of the sheer complexity of these people. Each interview is then analysed in the context of what actually happened from a journalistic perspective. These subsequent analyses give the book it peculiar flavour because the journalistic 'facts' as so often is the case do not tally with the informant's perspectives. There is a value in these analyses although at times they are rather long and tedious.
I do understand that this is possibly most likely the first instinct of a well respected and well versed journalist which is of course what Susan McKay represents. So the objection is merely one of professional conviction. So what is more real then? The journalistic 'facts' or the feelings and expressions of the informants?
As a sociologist I feel that perhaps the interview transcripts would have benefited greately from an anlaysis which took as its starting point the old sociological dictum of WI Thomas that if someone thinks something is real then it will be real in its consequences.
We all know the consequences of sectarianism in Northern Ireland.
Interestingly in looking closely at some of the transcripts it seems that the sectarianism emerging from the interviews was not just a property of the protestant mindset, but also somewhat a reaction to a wider 'felt' or 'experienced' sectarianism. These aspects of the interviews were not fully analysed. The chapter on South Armagh was especially poignant in this respect.
Despite the quibbles, this is a good book and I would certainly recommend it.
This book is absolutely superb, I have read many books on NI and this is the first that I couldn't put down.
The first, and most glaring, is that the author can't hide her deep dislike for her subject. Read more
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