Fearful of the Past or ‘Remembering the Future and Our Cause’? A Response to Cheryl Lawther

Edwards, Aaron

doi:10.1080/07907184.2012.704219

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“…Although getting political Unionism to accept any culpability for loyalist violence during the conflict (and indeed the flag protests) will be a 'tough sell' (Edwards, 2012a), this 'counter-memory' can go some way to disrupting the intensifying attempts by the DUP to gain a hegemony within PUL communities (McAuley, 2005).…”

Section: Pul Communities and The Abandonment Narrativementioning

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The Great Awakening? The Belfast Flag Protests and Protestant/Unionist/Loyalist Counter-memory in Northern Ireland

Hearty

2014

Irish Political Studies

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This article examines the protest movement that surfaced as a result of the decision taken by Belfast City Council to remove the Union flag from Belfast City Hall in December 2012. This article examines why the issue conflagrated as it did and led to a mobilisation within working-class Protestant/Unionist/Loyalist (PUL) communities on the issue. Examining the flag protests within the context of more general PUL disaffection with the Good Friday Agreement and its associated peace process, this article looks at the flag protests as an avenue for disaffected PUL communities to assert a new counter-memory that challenges not only the 'other' but also those within the leadership of political Unionism who are said to have used PUL communities during the conflict only to abandon them in the post-conflict transition. This article concludes by examining the future potential of the new political movement born out of the flag protests and the avenues open to it to challenge the hegemonic position of traditional Unionism that has left PUL communities behind as Northern Ireland progresses in transition out of political conflict.

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The Great Awakening? The Belfast Flag Protests and Protestant/Unionist/Loyalist Counter-memory in Northern Ireland

Hearty

2014

Irish Political Studies

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Sinn Féin, the Past and Political Strategy: The Provisional Irish Republican Movement and the Politics of ‘Reconciliation’

Hopkins

2014

Irish Political Studies

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This article examines a critical aspect of the contemporary political debate in Northern Ireland regarding 'the past', and how to deal with the legacies of violent conflict. The article will specifically analyse the Provisional republican movement's developing policy in this area. It outlines Sinn Féin's (SF's) policy evolution with regard to ideas of 'truth and reconciliation' in the context of the post-Belfast Agreement era of 'peace'. It proceeds to critically assess the Republican movement's demands for an independent and international process of 'truth recovery', and subsequently engages in a detailed critique of SF's recent promotion of a 'reconciliation strategy', designed to enhance the movement's strategic agenda, and usher in a new phase in the 'peace process'. The article concludes by arguing that SF's approach to 'truth and reconciliation' has been characterised by an emphasis upon the movement's efforts to legitimise its version of the historical narrative of the Troubles, rather than by any authentic attempt to address self-critically the previous commitment to 'armed struggle', or to seek genuine compromise with unionists, loyalists and the broader Protestant population. This approach has also been formulated for an internal audience, with the goal of convincing republicans that progress towards a united Ireland has not stalled.

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From warrior regimes to illicit sovereigns: Ulster loyalist paramilitaries and the security implications for Brexit

Brennan

2021

Small Wars & Insurgencies

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Fearful of the Past or ‘Remembering the Future and Our Cause’? A Response to Cheryl Lawther

Cited by 3 publications

References 18 publications

The Great Awakening? The Belfast Flag Protests and Protestant/Unionist/Loyalist Counter-memory in Northern Ireland

The Great Awakening? The Belfast Flag Protests and Protestant/Unionist/Loyalist Counter-memory in Northern Ireland

Sinn Féin, the Past and Political Strategy: The Provisional Irish Republican Movement and the Politics of ‘Reconciliation’

From warrior regimes to illicit sovereigns: Ulster loyalist paramilitaries and the security implications for Brexit

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