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Inventing the Myth: Political Passions and the Ulster Protestant Imagination

Connal Parr

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Description for Inventing the Myth: Political Passions and the Ulster Protestant Imagination Hardback. A lively and timely work about the history and politics of Ulster Protestants. The volume draws on over sixty interviews with politicians and cultural figures and focuses on ten writers whose work has reflected and challenged the views of their community. Num Pages: 280 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSG; HBJD1; JPA. Dimension: 216 x 135. .
This book approaches Ulster Protestantism through its theatrical and cultural intersection with politics, re-establishing a forgotten history and engaging with contemporary debates. Anchored by the perspectives of ten writers - some of whom have been notably active in political life - it uniquely examines tensions going on within. Through its exploration of class division and drama from the early twentieth century to the present, the book restores the progressive and Labour credentials of the community's recent past along with its literary repercussions, both of which appear in recent decades to have diminished. Drawing on over sixty interviews, unpublished scripts, ... Read more

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Publisher

Oxford University Press

Format

Hardback

Publication date

2017

Condition

New

Weight

28g

Number of Pages

320

Place of Publication

Oxford, United Kingdom

ISBN

9780198791591

SKU

V9780198791591

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99-15

About Connal Parr

Connal Parr studied Modern History at the University of Oxford and obtained his PhD in Ulster Protestant politics and culture at Queen's University Belfast in 2013. He was Irish Government Senior Scholar for 2014-15 at Hertford College, Oxford, and went on to convene and teach a course on 20th Century Europe at Fordham University's London Centre from January to June ... Read more

Reviews for Inventing the Myth: Political Passions and the Ulster Protestant Imagination

In exploring the social and political contexts of northern Irish Protestantism, its inheritance of dissent (what Dawn Purvis, former leader of the Progressive Unionist Party refers to as independent thought ) and linking this history to the literary imagination and its connection to the theatre , Parr has opened the door on the history of creative ... Read moreself-questioning and critical debate that is all so often passed by.
Gerald Dawe, The Irish Times
unquestionably the product of many years of painstaking reading and reflection, a rarity amongst the vast splurge of books on Northern Ireland. Crammed full of original insight for scholars and students keen to rediscover the lost world of the Ulster Protestant imagination, Connal Parr has given us an indispensable addition to the very best scholarship on the intersection of culture and politics in this troubled part of the world.
Aaron Edwards, Irish Studies Review
comprehensive and meticulously - researched ... raises many important questions. Parr deftly utilizes the texts of these authors' writing, exploring how their work fit within and critiqued the political contexts of their time. Inventing the Myth is a scholarly book. But Parr's writing style is clear enough to be appreciated by a popular audience.
Gladys Ganiel, Slugger O'Toole
It is rooted in a wide range of primary sources, a large number of interviews and a grounding in scholarly literature on the modern social, cultural and political history of Northern Ireland. It is a courageous book in many ways ... Parr has made a major contribution to a historically and culturally sensitive understanding of that community and in particular of its combative and progressive dimensions.
Henry Patterson,History Ireland
This is not only an excellent book to read but it is also very readable, being both well-written and informative ... This is a book that deserves to be well read by anyone with an interest in Ireland, also by those with an interest in literature and its role in conveying a message to the outside world whilst also reflecting back to ordinary people the realities of their own space.
James Dingley,National Identities
[An] important and ground-breaking book...For those who genuinely seek a nuanced and detailed understanding of [the Protestant working-class in Northern Ireland,] its political and cultural dynamics over the course of the last century, they could do no better than delve into this hugely rewarding book.
Stephen Hopkins, Irish Political Studies
Its one of the most important books to have been written about unionist 'identity' in Northern Ireland.
Alex Kane, News Letter
An impressive intervention in cultural history, highlighting dramatic writing from Sam Thompson to Gary Mitchell and beyond.
Roy Foster, 'The best books of 2017', The Irish Times
Connal Parr's book examines the overlooked role of theatre in shaping the imagination of Northern Ireland's Protestants. It makes for lively reading, populated by colourful characters, such as the playwrights Gary Mitchell and Graham Reid, and drawn from rich archival sources. Parr also includes spirited interviews with many of his subjects, all combining to give a strong sense of the Northern Irish theatrical scene in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Times Literary Supplement
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