Book contents
- Ulster’s Lost Counties
- Ulster’s Lost Counties
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Revolver in Hand, Lining the Ditches
- Chapter 3 Closing the Gates
- Chapter 4 A Toothless Hound of Ulster?
- Chapter 5 The Last Ditch
- Chapter 6 A Suspect Population
- Chapter 7 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 7 - Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 April 2024
- Ulster’s Lost Counties
- Ulster’s Lost Counties
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Revolver in Hand, Lining the Ditches
- Chapter 3 Closing the Gates
- Chapter 4 A Toothless Hound of Ulster?
- Chapter 5 The Last Ditch
- Chapter 6 A Suspect Population
- Chapter 7 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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 CountiesLoyalism and Paramilitarism since 1920, pp. 293 - 303Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024