“A Vestigial Population”?: Perspectives on Southern Irish Protestants in the Twentieth Century

Survival and Assimilation: Loyalism in the Interwar Irish Free State

“…84 Associations, clubs, and professional bodies continued to carry the "Royal" prefix, Dublin had more streets named after Queen Victoria than London, and, though literally painted over in green, the post-boxes still contained the royal cipher. 85 Nationalists had in fact been winning and losing battles for the streetscapes and place names of Dublin since the early twentieth century. The shamrock was a common motif on the street furniture in the city, for instance, but not in the unionist Rathmines township.…”