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Unionist support for flag protests has dwindled: time for a new strategy?

Soapbox on January 22, 2016, 11:00 am | Readers 4843

Ruth Patterson’s newly appointed campaign manager for the next Assembly election is Jamie Bryson. Here on Slugger he argues that the time is over for protest and that a new strategy must be found to raise concerns of working class loyalists. There has been much discussion and debate in recent days about a planned Union flag protest to be held on St Patrick’s day. The protest is billed as a 12 hour vigil. Protest is a powerful tool to articulate your …

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The flag protests – for example – were about social media, not column inches”: so what, then, will our Linen Hall Library look like in another 227 years?

C Johnston on December 7, 2015, 11:20 am | Readers 724

ULSTERS ATTIC: The Director of Belfast’s Linen Hall Library, Julie Andrews, arrives for work each day to an institution with living, breathing roots to the past like no other. She then sets about the very modern questions of Northern Ireland today: how to bring the past to life while keeping the bills paid, how to record the present in a digital world and where to find the generation after Heaney who will keep the library alive for centuries to come.

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Ownership of leaflet that provided ‘catalyst’ for flag protests confirmed by DUP councillor

The Firemen on December 3, 2014, 9:52 pm | Readers 3163

Today on BBC Talkback, DUP councillor Lee Reynolds finally publicly confirmed that the DUP and UUP had paid for and distributed leaflets described by authors of the QUB report as having a ‘catalytic effect’ in the run-up to the city hall vote,” The report states “It was this, more than anything else, which inflamed the mood at that point” listen to ‘Ownership of leaflet that provided ‘catalyst’ for flag protests confirmed by DUP councillor’ on audioBoom // The protests as …

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Police win flag protest appeal

Pete Baker on July 1, 2014, 1:32 pm | Readers 114

As the BBC reports, the Appeals Court has overturned a High Court ruling in April that the PSNI misdirected themselves in relation to policing the flag protests in Belfast – which “led to the situation in which the police facilitated illegal and sometimes violent parades with the effect of undermining the 1998 Act, in breach of their duties under section 32 of the Police (NI) Act 2000 and in breach of the applicant’s Article 8 rights.” From the BBC report …

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Matt Baggott on flag protests, Boston tapes, G8 summit, drones & social media

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on April 23, 2013, 9:00 am | Readers 104

It’s all looking a bit fraught. We need a recovery plan. The words of the Chief Constable Matt Baggott describing the fortunes of his football club rather than the PSNI’s response to the flags crisis. Though the words must echo what went through the PSNI senior officers’ minds when the flags crisis didn’t abate before Christmas. Monday’s post covered PSNI transformation, regulation and vocation. Remember that blogs aren’t newspapers, so not every post has to try to make a news …

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Thoughts on the Flag protests

Turgon on January 9, 2013, 1:55 pm | Readers 104

The flag protests have now been going on for a month. During that time we have heard assorted apportioning of blame, descriptions of the events as marking a disintegration in loyalism (and by extension then unionism), calls on various people to display “leadership” and much merriment and contempt directed at the flag protest leadership: often vitriolic here on slugger. The protests are at core a political issue. The riots are clearly criminality and some of those attacking the police may …

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Loyalist Flag Protests: Meet the Leadership

Chris Donnelly on January 4, 2013, 2:45 am | Readers 991

After another night of illegal loyalist road blocking descends into violence, with 8 PSNI officers injured, it has emerged that the loyalist protesters have formed a ten-member leadership committee to articulate their cause. Amongst the leaders elected are Willie Frazer, Johnny Harvey, Pastor Mark Gordon and Jamie Bryson. The new loyalist leaders have wasted no time in forming a wish list, according to Willie Frazer: We unanimously supported a return to direct rule and we agreed we will not be …

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The Flag Dispute – Anatomy of a Protest seminar – what, who, where, how and why? +audio +video

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on January 29, 2015, 7:07 pm | Readers 2055

The researchers from QUB’s Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice behind The Flag Dispute: Anatomy of a Protest report [PDF] held a seminar in Queen’s University this morning. [Gladys Ganiel blogged in detail about the report when it was published in December.] Two of the six researchers behind the report introduced the main findings. Paul Nolan quickly revisited the background to the protest (the “archaeology”). The PSNI gave researchers open access to operational logs from the …

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The Flag Dispute: Anatomy of a Protest published by Queen’s

Gladys Ganiel on December 3, 2014, 5:32 pm | Readers 2089

Today saw the publication of a report by researchers from the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice at Queen’s University Belfast, ‘The Flag Dispute: Anatomy of a Protest.’ It offers two key recommendations: A review of the outcomes of single identity work, coupled with additional programmes in loyalist areas that promote engagement with people from different backgrounds. In the absence of leadership from political parties, reconciliation bodies and civil society organisations should articulate a ‘people’s peace …

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Community Relations in Northern Ireland after the Flags Protest – Roundtable at the Royal Irish Academy

Gladys Ganiel on February 28, 2014, 1:51 pm | Readers 306

Last night the Institute for British Irish Studies at University College Dublin hosted a roundtable on ‘Community Relations in Northern Ireland after the Flags Protest,’ at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin. The discussion was focused around the findings of a report commissioned by the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister, ‘The Long View of Community Relations in Northern Ireland: 1989-2012,’ written by Duncan Morrow, Gillian Robinson and Lizanne Dowds. The report charts changes and trends in …

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The art of the peaceful protest…

Sarah Kirkwood on July 10, 2023, 8:53 am | Readers 4683

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YET another anniversary, 25 years on from the Drumcree/The Garvaghy Road dispute which made headlines the world over. But there is a different ‘orange’ protest in the news that has caught my eye. That would be the ongoing ‘JUST STOP OIL’ campaign. On Saturday a member of the public approached George Osborne and Thea Rogers as they emerged from their wedding and showered the newlyweds in orange confetti from a Union flag paper bag. Naturally, given the fact George Osborne …

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The Misidentification of Loyalism: ideologies that harm working class Protestants…

Michael Walker on April 2, 2022, 11:44 am | Readers 12742

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Lost in translation I was born in 1993, into an area called Kells in County Antrim. I would be told as I grew up that Kells was a ‘loyalist area’. What ‘loyalism’ means as opposed to ‘unionism’ has become more and more confusing for me in recent years, and I think it lies at the heart of issues resurfacing now. While studying at Cambridge nearly a decade ago, I found myself having to explain Northern Ireland a lot. My first …

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The Untold Story of Ulster Protestantism…

Choyaa on December 5, 2021, 10:41 am | Readers 17074

As part of my unofficial English GCSE curriculum that was set by my teacher, there was a part that consisted of watching the movie “Michael Collins” (1996), studying its themes and some of the subsequent writings and poetry from that era, specifically focusing on the Easter Rising. In my naivety at the time, I asked if we would be studying any movies that would show the Unionist or indeed Protestant perspective? The response was that no such film or TV …

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The embers of sectarianism and violent protest never seem to burn out and are all too easily fanned.

Terry Wright on April 17, 2021, 11:35 am | Readers 6833

“Young people in Northern Ireland are heir to an historical legacy of sectarian social division.” Acts of Union: Youth culture and sectarianism in Northern Ireland, Desmond Bell, 1990 “North Belfast is witnessing the creation of the next wave of paramilitary gunmen. Today they are aged eight, their stones bouncing harmlessly off the …..police Land Rovers…… But unless things change ….many of these children…….. will know exactly how much sugar is needed in a petrol bomb.” Belfast streets spawn a …

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Beyond Hume: The challenge to the ‘stick a flag on it’ politics, is to build better and longer for all the people of Northern Ireland

Mick Fealty on August 10, 2020, 8:54 am | Readers 3319

Last week the Ireland cricket team, wearing black armbands for the old Derry warrior for peace, took on the ODI world champions and repeated the miracle of Bangalore, beat them with the same single last ball to spare and the same man, Kevin O’Brien, to dispatch them at the end. Hume, as with much else in his long life, was no armchair cricket fan but someone who played several seasons for both City of Derry and Waterside Cricket Clubs. He …

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Laws against flags on lamp posts are mere gestures unless the unionist parties start championing local people’s interests with the UVF and UDA

Brian Walker on July 3, 2019, 12:53 pm | Readers 3813

Each marching season begins with familiar tensions and flashpoints old and new. They combine in the modest environment of Cantrell Close, back for a third year with the added twist of the Soldier F campaign. Legal action is the knee jerk reaction, superficially attractive until it comes to examining where the law stands and how to enforce it. The civil servants opposed to it needn’t worry; they cannot exercise powers they haven’t got. But is legal action the right response …

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“He said [the Protestant] gene pool is so small they are all like the people from Deliverance.”

Mick Fealty on August 8, 2018, 9:01 am | Readers 6349

I cannot believe this is typical of the taxi drivers who give history tours of the trouble spots of Belfast, but it does provide a graphic illustration of what anti Protestant bigotry looks and sounds like: The next thing we drive down a street with a lot of Union Jacks, Scottish saltires and Red Hand of Ulster flags and he said ‘the reason the Protestants fly all these flags is because they have no culture of their own’,” Mr Liquerman …

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Inventing the Myth on the Eleventh Night: Review of Connal Parr’s Book on Ulster Protestantism

Gladys Ganiel on July 11, 2018, 11:25 am | Readers 3421

“What is distinctive of political Protestantism – its Orange marches, its flute bands, its lodge banners, its sectarian songs – is taken to be the sum of all cultural life in that community.” – Prof Arthur Aughey, quoted in Connal Parr, p. 15, Inventing the Myth We are on the eve of the Twelfth – usually considered the height of Ulster Protestant-Unionist-Loyalist cultural expression. But Aughey’s words should give us pause for thought. Aughey is quoted in Connal Parr’s widely …

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The DUP/Loyalist flag protocol is another sign of hostility to ‘The Others’

Chris Donnelly on May 30, 2018, 6:35 am | Readers 6002

The DUP and loyalists have announced that they have agreed a new flags protocol for the flying of loyalist flags in the mixed residential area of Ballynafeigh. They have decided, between themselves, that their flags will be flown from lamp posts in these mixed residential areas for a quarter of the year, going up and being taken down on dates that they have independently determined for the benefit of all else residing in these mixed areas. Proclaiming the good news …

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“In some Unionist areas, it would be tantamount to erecting a Tricolour from a flagpole.”

Chris Donnelly on September 15, 2017, 11:17 pm | Readers 4839

The root cause of our current political crisis remains political unionism’s opposition to the development of a shared and equal Northern Ireland. Of course, twas ever thus. The Loyal Sons will not be rerouted on their fateful march to Ulster’s precipice in spite of more enlightened pro-Union voices regularly exposing the hypocrisy and instinctively supremacist thinking at the core of Unionist politics. The News Letter’s recent campaign rallying Protestant and Unionist opinion against an Irish Language Act has included a …

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