The Northern Ireland Conflict on the Margins of History

Protestant Memory on the Border

Kenneth Funston, Cillian McGrattan (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

324 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-991-9 (ISBN)

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Assessing the impact of paramilitary violence on border Protestants in Northern Ireland remains a critically overlooked part of the region’s history. Remembered through a framework of memory that blurs the boundary between victim and perpetrator, existing scholarship often disempowers border Protestants by obscuring their experience under the Provisional IRA’s campaign. This re-examination of the conflict illuminates how the Troubles impacted the Protestant community’s physical, economic, and cultural presence in the border counties. Combining oral history with a broader assessment of the Provisional campaign, this book presents a compelling case study for viewing this violence as a form of ethnic cleansing.

Kenneth Funston gained his doctorate in 2020 from Ulster University, with a thesis focusing on the minority Protestant population of County Fermanagh and republican violence. He has worked with victims of terrorism, speaking at many conferences and debates in order to highlight victims’ issues. His research examining the effects of republican violence on the border has appeared in publications such as the Financial Times and the Belfast News Letter.He has also worked collaboratively with Spanish representatives of victims of ETA terror, highlighting the similarity of issues faced by victims and survivors.

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Acknowledgements

Foreword

Professor Henry Patterson

Introduction: Moving On and Losing Out

Part I: Memory and the Northern Ireland Conflict

Chapter 1. The Past in Northern Ireland

Chapter 2. Memory, Forgetting, and Trauma in Northern Ireland

Part II: Memory on the Border

Chapter 3. Protestant Memory on the Border in the 1970s

Chapter 4. Targeted Killings and Community Trauma (1980–1987)

Chapter 5.From the Enniskillen Poppy Day Atrocity to the 1994 Ceasefire

Part III: Memory on the Margins of History

Chapter 6. Protestant Memory of Ethnic Cleansing

Chapter 7. Hubris and Insult

Conclusion: The Northern Ireland Vichy Syndrome

Appendix: Chronological List of Deaths in Fermanagh

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.5.2025
Reihe/Serie	Worlds of Memory
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-80539-991-8 / 1805399918
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-991-9 / 9781805399919
Zustand	Neuware