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‘The absurdity of arguing over wine’ ‘The absurdity of arguing over wine’
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Protestant Patriots and Catholic Unionists Protestant Patriots and Catholic Unionists
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Expedient Alliances Expedient Alliances
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Everyone’s Favourite Dependent Variable Everyone’s Favourite Dependent Variable
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1 Beyond Teleology: Religious and Political Identities Before the Irish Revolution
Get accessS. J. Connolly is Emeritus Professor of Irish History at Queen’s University, Belfast, where he taught from 1996 until 2017. His most recent book is On Every Tide: The Making and Remaking of the Irish World (Little, Brown 2022). His other publications include The Oxford Companion to Irish History (1998); two volumes in the Oxford History of Early Modern Europe, Contested Island: Ireland 1460–1630 (2007) and Divided Kingdom: Ireland 1630–1800 (2008); and Civic Identity and Public Space: Belfast Since 1780 (Manchester University Press, 2019), written jointly with Dominic Bryan.
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Published:22 February 2024
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Abstract
By the beginning of the twentieth century Irish political life was divided along clear confessional lines. A mainly Catholic nationalism confronted a mainly Protestant unionism. Yet it would be a mistake to project this straightforward dichotomy onto an earlier period. Ireland’s unusual religious demography ensured that sectarian hostility was an inescapable part of political life. But there were other divisions within Irish society, and expedient alliances repeatedly took shape across confessional lines. It was not until the 1880s that wary interaction gave way to polarization. The triumph of confessional politics was in part due to the changing character of public life. But the emergence of new religious cultures, Catholic and Protestant, also played a part in shaping political relationships and responses
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