Fermanagh Unionism 1945-1973

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" Fermanagh Unionism 1945-1973 "
McCay, Kevin

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Record Number	:	1100126
Doc. No	:	TLets603580
Main Entry	:	McCay, Kevin
Title & Author	:	Fermanagh Unionism 1945-1973\ McCay, Kevin
College	:	University of Ulster
Date	:	2013
student score	:	2013
Degree	:	Ph.D.
Abstract	:	The thesis addresses three issues which have not been sufficiently addressed in previous research.Within northern Nationalism there is a palpable impatience with the present peace process. Twentyyears after the IRA ceasefire and fifteen years since the Good Friday Agreement many of the keyissues which divide society here have not been addressed, as expected. There is a sense of drift,prevarication and a reluctance to address the big contentious issues. "Fudge" has become an overusedterm of the political lexicon of Northern Ireland. Unionism has been primarily blamed forequivocation: the monolith, the rock in the stream. Historically, Unionism has been cast as the villain.Border Unionism has been at the forefront of the resistance to change. Fermanagh Unionists alwaysbelieved that the prevailing view of virtually all other parties [from Gladstone to Wilson] was that aresolution of the Irish problem was based on the Nationalist interpretation. Naturally, they believedthis to be a flawed interpretation and saw their role as frustrating the aims of Irish Nationalism.The thesis has three aims. The first is to study regional Unionism in Fermanagh which has not beensufficiently addressed in other research. The second is to test the theory that Unionism is a monolith.This issue has been comprehensively researched but the thesis refines the research by its focus on oneregion. The thesis asked whether these people were Unionists from Fermanagh or whether theybelong to a distinct category called "Fermanagh Unionists". The third aim attempts to establish thepolitical outlook of Fermanagh Unionism. This entails examining the origins of Fermanagh Unionismwhich created a distinct negative political posture and a political organisation which had a majorinfluence on politics in the 1960s. The thesis will attempt to establish whether their political mentalitywas valid and whether their subsequent influence on events was negative, benign or constructive.The thesis covers the period from 1945 to 1973. The end of World War Two was the beginning of aperiod of social, economic and political change. It is within these changes and this time frame thatFermanagh Unionism reacted as it did. The thesis examines the clash between traditional Unionismwith modernity. The thesis cites the nuances of the cosy parochial political world of Fermanagh andthe clash with the technocratic political realities of a much more complicated political world createdby more composite interdependent economic reliance and changing relationships. Finally, the thesisquestions whether the political analysis of Fermanagh Unionism was valid.
Added Entry	:	University of Ulster