A History of Northern Ireland 1920-1996

Religion, Protestants and national identity: a response to the March 2009 issue

“…Nor does one find any evidence to support the contention that Southern Protestants, over 70% of whom felt so welcome in the Republic that they left, 9 were much better treated than Northern Catholics. In fact many Northern Catholics were conscious of being much better off than in the South, which was why the IRA's 1956Á62 border campaign failed so miserably (Buckland, 1981;Hennessey, 1997;Smith, 1997). In addition, claims of political gerrymandering only applied to 7 out of 28 local authorities (and definitely not to Parliamentary elections to Stormont or Westminster) and often had their roots in Nationalist attempts to boycott the state in its early years as much as over job allocations (Hennessey, 2005).…”

Job Discrimination in Northern Ireland and the Law in Relation to the Theory of Ethnic Nationalism

“…The very existence of the border is regarded as discriminating against them. The Nationalist community kept up a hostile attitude toward the Northern Ireland state's existence from the start, boycotting Parliament, refusing to join an integrated educational system and helping to maintain sporadic Irish Republican Army (IRA) campaigns (Boyce, 1995;Foster, 1989;Hennessey, 1997), thus effectively isolating themselves. These must be separated from nominal Catholics, such as RUC members, who presumably felt no objection to the state or loss of identity.…”

Review of European Studies, Vo. 1, No. 1, June, 2009. All in one PDF file.

“…A PIRA 'Staff Report' blamed the IRA itself for 'not indoctrinating members with the psychological strength to resist interrogation.' (Hennessey, T., 1998) It is estimated that, between 1976 and 1979, about three thousand suspects were charged with terrorist offences, most of them based on confessions extracted from interrogation. (Bishop, P. and Mallie, E., 1987, PP.…”