I first suspected you were a protestant when you werent up for the craic.
A serious question for the Belfast folks
I thought it was good, think I remember Boul saying that he didn't agree. The book is mostly a series of interviews with a bunch of different Portestants around N.I. - from middle class liberals to mad lunatic sectarians who think Bloody Sunday was faked.
The author is Protestant and is the Northern Editor for the Sunday Tribune (newspaper based in Dublin). I think she used to write for the Irish Times. You'll get a sample of the book here: http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/people/accounts/mckay00.htm
jef costello wrote:
That's a Union Jack you silly sod. Tricolore is about more than having three colours. (It's usually about being catholic afaict)
Shows how much attention I pay to all that patriot hoohaa. I'da burned um both and tossed a black and red in for giggles but it was Pat's party.
There's another book similar to that one by Rosa Sweetman - Workerts Party- called "On our knees". It came out in 1970 and is really hard to get, unless you go to my attic, she basically went around interviewing / telling these people they were wrong and Goulding was right- Sean McStiofan, Ian Paisley, Charlie Haughey and a rake load of priests. Really good read - because Goulding was right.
There was another "Prod" one out a few years back that I picked up, read and thought was really good, probably this one if this one is out a while. If so I endorse it.
Any of y'all ever read Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People by Susan McKay? From what little know of family history, that's our roots so if it's worth a crap i might give it a read.