Southern Irish Loyalism in Context
24 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 6 years ago - ★★★★ - 1 ratingThis podcast is a collection of the speakers at the recent 'Southern Irish Loyalism in Context' Conference held at Maynooth University July 21st - 22nd, 2017. This conference was generously funded by the Irish Research Council and hosted at An Foras Feasa, Maynooth University.
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Episode 24 - Panel 6b - Conservatism with a small ‘c’; Loyalism with a small ‘l’? The ‘Skibbereen Eagle’ and its turbulent hinterland 1900-1922 - John O'Donovan
October 15, 2017 14:56 - 28 minutes - 20.9 MBFraming the overlapping networks of unionism, conservatism and loyalism in pre-revolutionary Ireland is a challenge. This becomes more acute the closer one gets to the twentieth century and the disappearance of political power from the unionist class. ‘Hard’ power became replaced with ‘soft’ power (much to the chagrin of diverse characters such as Lord Barrymore and DP Moran). The nostalgia of prudent management and benevolent dispersal of money and services became more acute as the acien reg...
Episode 23 - Panel 6b - Municipal Unionism in Dublin 1898 – 1922 - Dr. Ciarán Wallace
October 15, 2017 14:49 - 34 minutes - 49 MBFrom the 1860s nationalists gradually came to dominate Dublin Corporation. In 1898 new legislation dramatically expanded the municipal franchise and the arrival of Labour and Sinn Féin in the early twentieth century radicalized city politics. Throughout this period, however, a small but solid bloc of unionists were consistently returned to City Hall. Meanwhile, in Dublin’s suburbs unionist enjoyed secure majorities, administering the daily affairs of Rathmines and Pembroke Urban District Coun...
Episode 22 - Panel 6a - Southern Protestant Manufacturing Interests: the Union, Partition and Protection - Prof. Frank Barry
October 15, 2017 14:49 - 31 minutes - 22.6 MBMost of the large manufacturing firms in the Irish Free State in 1922 had been established by Protestant unionist families and remained under Protestant ownership and management. These included Guinness, Jacobs, Goodbody’s (jute), the Cleeve Brothers’ Condensed Milk Company of Ireland, Goulding’s (fertiliser), Smyth & Co. (hosiery), Denny’s (bacon), the Limerick Clothing Co., and a number of linen manufacturers. These firms were export-oriented and fully integrated into the British and colon...
Episode 21 - Panel 6a - Southern protestant voices during the Irish War of Independence and Civil War: reports from Church of Ireland synods - Prof. Brian M. Walker
October 15, 2017 14:47 - 37 minutes - 27 MBIn this paper the experiences of southern protestants during the period 1919-23 will be charted through eye witness accounts in the form of speeches from annual synods of the Church of Ireland, a source which has hitherto been ignored. Members of the Church of Ireland comprised the largest section of the protestant population in the 26 counties which became the Irish Free State. In 1911 members numbered just under 250,000, nearly 8 per cent of the population, but in 1926 they numbered 164,000...
Episode 20 - Panel 5b - “It was the done thing”: Irish unionist attitudes to war and neutrality, and southern Irish Protestant volunteers in the British forces during the Second World War - Dr. Joseph Quinn
October 15, 2017 14:45 - 35 minutes - 25.8 MBThroughout the course of the Second World War the position of the southern Irish Protestant community was decidedly pro-British. Nevertheless, the ideological stance of members of the remnant Irish unionist faction within the Irish state was tempered by a general respect for the policy of neutrality initiated by Eamon de Valera’s government in 1939. In addition, notable champions of the Irish unionist interest registered strong objections against the antagonism of the Stormont government towa...
Episode 19 - Panel 5b - "My Colonial Office pass would have proved a pass to the next world": Irish colonial servants and the Irish Revolution - Dr. Seán Gannon
October 15, 2017 14:43 - 20 minutes - 19.3 MBIreland provided a rich recruitment ground for the British overseas services in the latter half of the long nineteenth century with the result that, by 1919, Irish administrators, doctors, lawyers, policemen, educationalists, and engineers were to be found working in every corner of the colonial empire. Recent research has exploded the notion that Irish nationalism and British imperialism were, by their definitions, dichotomous. Nonetheless, the great majority of Irish colonial servants recru...
Episode 18 - Panel 5a - One, but not the same? The geography of the signing of the Ulster Solemn League and Covenant, September 1912 - Dr. Arlene Crampsie and Dr. Jonathan Cherry
October 15, 2017 14:40 - 27 minutes - 20.1 MBOn 28th Sept 1912 over 400,000 loyal men and women across the nine counties of Ulster appended their names to either the Ulster Solemn League and Covenant or the Ulster Declaration. In doing so they pledged their loyalty to the King, their allegiance to the United Kingdom and vociferously proclaimed their opposition to the planned creation of a home rule parliament in Dublin. While the majority of historiography focuses on events at the key signing centres in Belfast, the documents were actua...
Episode 17 - Panel 5a - Mapping constituencies of Southern Unionist electoral support 1885-1932 - Jack Kavanagh, Neale Rooney & Martin Charlton
October 15, 2017 14:37 - 25 minutes - 18.6 MBThis paper sets out to identify areas of significant Unionist electoral support in ‘Southern’ Ireland. This paper is deliberately refraining from an examination of the six predominantly Unionist counties in Ulster, and will instead examine Unionist support in the rest of Ireland. This paper will start in 1885 as the controversy over the Home Rule bill, 1886 led to a significant change in how candidates identified themselves in elections in Ireland. Prior to 1885, electoral candidates did not ...
Episode 16 - Panel 4b - Adaptive co- existence? Lord Farnham, southern loyalist and the Irish Free State - Dr. Jonathan Cherry
October 15, 2017 14:32 - 28 minutes - 20.4 MBIn January 2002 at the residual house clearance auction at Farnham House, county Cavan Lot 53 described as “including four coronet shields; flags etc” was sold for €70. It was by no means the most valuable lot but the flags, a few tattered and faded Union Jacks, were symbolic remnants of the fervent loyalism of the Maxwell family of Farnham during the opening decades of the 20th century. This paper traces the changing career of Arthur Kenlis Maxwell, Lord Farnham (1879-1957) from one of the ...
Episode 15 - Panel 4a - ‘Disputed legacies: British military charities, the new Irish state and the courts, 1923-29’ - Dr. Paul Huddie
October 15, 2017 14:30 - 21 minutes - 15.6 MBWere British ex-servicemen in Ireland viewed only as ‘British loyalists’ or those who had fought for or were still associated with ‘the enemy’ in the wake of the Great War and Irish Revolution? To date the works of Taylor, Fitzpatrick and Robinson have gone a long way to address that question and to show the scale and nature of hostility faced by those men and their families during the period of 1920-23, and thereafter, as well as the benefits that they received from the British State. But wh...
Episode 14 - Panel 4a - ‘The future welfare of the Empire will depend more largely on our women and girls’: southern loyalist women and the British war effort in Ireland 1914-1918 - Dr Fionnuala Walsh
October 15, 2017 14:28 - 25 minutes - 19 MBDuring the First World War thousands of women in Ireland performed a parallel war service to that of men in the British Army. The women joined the Red Cross, St John Ambulance Association, the Irish War Hospital Supply Depot and many other voluntary organisations, offering their time and labour for free. They did so for a variety of motives: personal, political and associational. Many felt a strong identification with the British war effort and a desire to prove their loyalty to Britain, when...
Episode 13 - Keynote: 'Great Betrayal or Soft Landing? The fate of Southern Irish Loyalists in comparative perspective' - Dr. Tim Wilson
October 15, 2017 14:23 - 55 minutes - 76.8 MBThe conference keynote was delivered by Dr Tim Wilson, Director of the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews. Dr Wilson is the author of a range of publications on political violence, ethnic violence, and terrorism, including Frontiers of Violence: Conflict and Identity in Ulster and Upper Silesia, 1918-22 (Oxford, 2010) and ‘The Strange Death of Loyalist Monaghan, 1912–1921’ in S. Paseta (ed.), Uncertain Futures: Essays about the Irish...
Episode 12 - Panel 3b - Building a Southern Loyalism: Cavan and Monaghan Unionists and Ulster 1912-1923 - Dan Purcell
October 15, 2017 14:21 - 30 minutes - 22.3 MBThis paper focuses on the loyalist community in Cavan and Monaghan from the signing of the Ulster Covenant through to the establishment of the Irish Free State and the Civil War. In particular, it focuses on the awkward questions of identity faced by the community after the partition of Ireland in 1921 (and by the growing likelihood of this event in the years previous). Cavan and Monaghan, along with Donegal, represented the three Ulster counties with the lowest Protestant populations. Cavan ...
Episode 11 - Panel 3b - Outmanoeuvring the Dáil: the southern unionist political strategy 1919-1922 - Dr. Owen McGee
October 15, 2017 14:19 - 36 minutes - 26.4 MBThis paper will highlight the continued leadership that southern unionists gave to the unionist position across Ireland during 1919-1922, not least by acting in an advisory capacity to the British cabinet. Highlighting the active role played by the Earl of Midleton upon replacing Sir Edward Carson as the leader of Irish unionism, it will demonstrate how continued influence over Irish financial institutions allowed southern unionists to play a critical role in the negotiation of a truce during...
Episode 10 - Panel 3a - Revisiting Protestant decline in Ireland, 1911 - 1926 - Donald Wood
October 15, 2017 14:16 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBI discuss the differing reasons put forward by academics for the sharp decline between 1911 and 1926 of the Protestant population of the twenty six counties that formed the Irish Free State. Census reports from the 1871-1911 period are used to question theories of long term Protestant natural decline. I argue that, up to 1911, Protestant natural change was either neutral or positive and all Protestant decline was due to emigration. I analyse the detailed information from the 1911 censuses t...
Episode 9 - Panel 3a - The southern Protestant exodus myth and ethnic cleansing in twentieth-century Ireland - Dr. John M. Regan
October 15, 2017 14:12 - 28 minutes - 20.5 MBAfter 1968, Northern Ireland experienced nearly thirty years of civil war. Though some denied it, the so-called ‘Long War’ influenced aspects of professional historical writing on Ireland. This paper addresses historical interpretations of the ‘exodus’ of Protestants from southern Ireland between 1911 and 1926. It argues explanations of ethnic conflict in 1920-1923 in the 1990s mirrored interpretations of contemporary violence in Northern Ireland 1968-1998. In the 1980s and 1990s, the dom...
Episode 8 - Panel 2b - The experience of Waterford loyalists in the revolutionary decade 1912-1923 - Dr. Pat McCarthy
October 15, 2017 14:08 - 27 minutes - 19.7 MB“I had been brought up under the union jack and had no desire to live under any other emblem.” The words of C.P. Crane, a Tipperary R.M., in 1923, would have found an echo in the hearts of many of Waterford’s loyalist community. By 1926 their population had declined by 40% compared to 1911 and those who survived now lived in a different environment. In 1912 the small but influential loyalist community in Waterford had been vocal in their opposition to Home Rule. Led by Sir William Goff-Davis ...
Episode 7 - Panel 2b - Southern Irish Loyalists in a garrison county: Kildare Unionism, 1912-23 - Seamus Cullen
October 15, 2017 14:05 - 26 minutes - 19.6 MBThe proposed paper is a study of the Southern Unionist community in County Kildare in a time of social and political upheaval. Kildare, in contrast to other counties outside Ulster, was different due to the presence of substantial British army garrisons stationed in the county. With the military at times peaking at ten percent of the population, Unionists in Kildare at all levels in society forged strong connections with the army. During the revolutionary period until the departure of the Bri...
Episode 6 - Panel 2a -'Seeking a congenial citizenship: the loyalist reimagination of southern Ireland after 1922' - Dr. Ian D'Alton
October 15, 2017 13:52 - 22 minutes - 32.4 MBThis paper rests conceptually on a borrowing from sociology, principally a 2011 article by Evelyn Nakano Glenn, 'Constructing citizenship: exclusion, subordination and resistance'. The talk examines examines how, in post-1922 Ireland, southern Irish Protestants approached acquiring a sense of citizenship in the new Ireland. In this, they had to bridge a potentially disastrous disconnection with Ireland, complicated by a genuine geographical patriotism, an inherent uneasiness with an ascen...
Episode 5 - Panel 1b - From Kilderry to Ballynagard: Colonel John George Vaughan Hart and the Unionist experience of the Irish Revolution in East Donegal, 1919- c. 1944 - Katherine Magee
October 15, 2017 12:39 - 30 minutes - 22.3 MBIn 1928, a wealthy Protestant landowner moved his family from their ancestral home in Kilderry, County Donegal, where the family had long been associated with the area, to Ballynagard, County Londonderry. Although Ballynagard was just a few miles along the road from Kilderry crucially they crossed the border. The differences between the two homes were extensive; Ballynagard was not the luxury the family had experienced. Hart, writing in 1924 stated ‘there is no comparison between this plac...
Episode 4 - Panel 1b - A proud Briton and Corkman: The life and career of Henry Lawrence Tivy (1848-1929) - Alan McCarthy
October 15, 2017 12:24 - 24 minutes - 34.5 MBIn his influential work Crisis and Decline, R.B. McDowell referred to Henry Lawrence Tivy as ‘an extremely proud and sensitive man.’ Born into a patrician family in Cork, Tivy was a merchant prince who acquired the Cork Constitution newspaper in 1882 and later launched the weekly edition, the Cork Weekly News. In 1915 he purchased the Dublin Evening Mail and Daily Express. These newspapers served as a vehicle for the espousal of Tivy’s unionist politics, of which this pugnacious proprietor re...
Episode 3 - Panel 1a - Voting to maintain the Union in 1918: ‘the strongest pillars upon which they stood' - Elaine Callinan
October 15, 2017 12:23 - 19 minutes - 14.3 MBVoting to maintain the Union in 1918: ‘the strongest pillars upon which they stood’ Tom Garvin in The Evolution of Irish Nationalist Politics stated that ‘the general election of December 1918 was, in the language of political science, a critical election.’ It was the dawn of intense electioneering and the creation of adroit propaganda campaigns aimed at winning the hearts and minds of the electorate. Southern unionists, like their nationalist counterparts, sought to persuade (and at time...
Episode 2 - Panel 1a - The Irish Senate, 1922 - 1928 - Dr. Elaine Byrne
October 15, 2017 12:19 - 28 minutes - 20.4 MBThis paper argues that the Irish Senate of 1922–28 is a rare case of a non-partisan chamber in a bicameral system which effectively occupied the role traditionally assigned to the opposition within a unicameral parliamentary system. In some respects it was the de-facto opposition. In many ways, particularly in those early years, it was a model second chamber. The reasons for this atypical role are in themselves unusual. The quality of the Senate’s membership, the rules underpinning its est...
Episode 1 - Intro
October 15, 2017 10:19 - 23 seconds - 1.69 MBThis podcast is a collection of conference papers delivered at the Southern Irish Loyalism in Context Conference in July 21st - 22nd at Maynooth University. The conference was generously funded by the Irish Research Council and hosted at An Foras Feasa, Maynooth University. For more information about the conference use the following link: https://southernirishloyalism.wordpress.com