Who Are 'The People'?

Peter Shirlow is Senior Lecturer in the School of Environmetal Studies at the University of Ulster. He is the author of Beyond the Wire: Former Prisoners and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland (Pluto, 2008) and Belfast: Segregation, Violence and the City (Pluto, 2006).Mark McGovern is Professor in Sociology at Edge Hill University, UK. In his research he has worked closely with NGOs, victms' groups and lawyers over many years on issues of conflict transformation and state violence, particularly in Northern Ireland. His publications include Ardoyne: The Untold Truth and articles for Race and Class, Sociology, State Crime and Critical Studies on Terrorism.

• Introduction1. Arthur Augley ( University of Ulster): The Character of Ulster Unionism2. Brian Graham ( University of Ulster): Ulster – A Representation of Place yet to be imagined3. Duncan Morrow ( University of Ulster): Suffering for Righteousness Sake? Fundamentalist Protestantism and Ulster Politics4. Alan Finlayson ( Queens University Belfast): Discourse and Contemporary Loyalist Identity5. Alan Bairner ( University of Ulster): Up to Their Knees? Football, Sectarianism and Masculinity and Protestant Working Class Identity6. Colin Coulter ( St Patrick's College, Maynooth): The Culture of Contentment: The Political Beliefs and Practise of the Unionist Middle Class.7. Rosemary Sales ( Middlesex University): Gender and Protestantism in Northern Ireland8. James McAuley ( University of Huddersfield): Flying the one Winged Bird: Ulster Unionism and the Peace Process9. Mark McGovern and Peter Shirlow: Counter-Insurgency and De-Industrialisation and the Political Economy of Ulster LoyalismIndex