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Chapter 7 - Conclusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 April 2024

Edward Burke
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University College Dublin
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Summary

This chapter underlines the main contribution of the book. It argues that Ulster loyalism has survived within the Irish state to the present day. The ’affective bonds’ or culture created in previous generations persisted. Three counties’ loyalists were still willing to embrace an Ulster identity even after the partition of the province. What mattered more than political logic or calculation was sentiment. It also observes an enduring strain of frontier militancy in Ulster, summarises the tactical successes of three counties’ loyalists and their wider movements in the 1920s and again in 1970s but concludes that militancy in successive conflicts only served to delay conciliatory reforms, truces and peace agreements.

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Ulster's Lost Counties
Loyalism and Paramilitarism since 1920
, pp. 293 - 303
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Conclusion
  • Edward Burke, University College Dublin
  • Book: Ulster's Lost Counties
  • Online publication: 18 April 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009469272.008
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  • Conclusion
  • Edward Burke, University College Dublin
  • Book: Ulster's Lost Counties
  • Online publication: 18 April 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009469272.008
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  • Conclusion
  • Edward Burke, University College Dublin
  • Book: Ulster's Lost Counties
  • Online publication: 18 April 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009469272.008
Available formats
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