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Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People (Paperback)

by Susan McKay (Author)
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  • Paperback: 394 pages
  • Publisher: Blackstaff Press Ltd (May 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 085640666X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0856406669
  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 16.1 x 3.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 835,508 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Presenting and analysing over 60 in-depth interviews with northern Protestants, this work aims to impart an understanding of the range and complexity of Protestant attitudes in Northern Ireland. Within the overall Protestant community there is much dissent - there are those who utterly condemn the loyalist paramilitaries, for example, and there are those paramilitaries who despise unionists who, they argue, rely on them to defend Ulster while washing their hands of responsibility. While some Protestants feel relatively comfortable about developments and would welcome an end to the notion of of a Protestant state for a Protestant people, the majority feel a sense of losing ground, of being under threat, of being betrayed.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars An interesting book on a misunderstood community, 30 Nov 2000
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Susan McKay has tackled a difficult subject in her book - the Protestants of Ulster are a difficult community to understand and often their own worst enemy on the publicity stakes. This book presents a broad range of views from Protestants and provides some interesting analyses of Protestant attitudes. She is not uncritical of her own community but seeks to place their attitudes and actions in a historical and social context. My only criticism is that each interview is followed by (often) prolonged explanation of the events/issues the interviewee was referring to. I found this irritating and often unnecessary.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Probably the best book on NI Protestants ever, 7 Aug 2000
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This is a superb book, I don't understand the other review at all. The book contains 60 interviews that are each fascinating, the whole point of this book seems to be to give a voice to those who are normally unheard. What do neighbours of families burnt out think? What do the survivors of sexual abuse by convicted Presbyterian ... Lindsay Brown think of how they were treated by the Establishment? A voice ofr widows, survivors, bigot and all the rest.

This book is absolutely superb, I have read many books on NI and this is the first that I couldn't put down.

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Painful and honest, 30 Oct 2002
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I am writing as someone who comes from one of the protestant communities on which this book is based and indeed who knows many of the people who were interviewed in it. I found the book painful to read because it seemed to represent, at least to me, a mirror to the heart of my people. It is hard to read because of it's honesty. I would recommend it to any one wanting to understand how the issue of sectarianism runs deeply in the conflict in Northern Ireland.

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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A breath of fresh air.
This is a superb book and an absolute must for anyone who seeks to understand the complexities of the Northern Ireland conflict. Read more
Published 5 months ago by A reader

4.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting.
I am from Dublin. The proverbial 'so near but yet so far' takes on a very literal meaning when it comes to the North. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Alex Ireland

1.0 out of 5 stars Not the real story
This book has two major problems.

The first, and most glaring, is that the author can't hide her deep dislike for her subject. Read more

Published on 15 May 2005

5.0 out of 5 stars A hugely-engaging work
Ten out of ten. Well-researched and wide-ranging, this is also a hugely-engaging and deeply moving book. Read more
Published on 2 April 2003 by A. Scott

2.0 out of 5 stars Describes Northern Protestants, but fails to explain them.

This book would be of use to Northern Protestants who want to find out how the rest of the world sees them, but cannot be recommended for those who are seeking to understand... Read more
Published on 28 Jun 2000

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