Twenty years after journalist Susan McKay wrote a book about Northern Protestants, she once more takes the temperature of the tradition right across society in the north with her new book, Northern Protestants: On Shifting Ground. The publication comes at a time when the ground is indeed shifting, with the fall-out from Brexit and an ...
And so it was that on the centenary of the day on which George V came to Belfast to open the first parliament in Northern Ireland, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson became the leader of the DUP, pledging to return from Westminster to reveal his “vision to lead unionism into its second century”. In 1921, the King ...
DUP MP Gregory Campbell has been criticised for correcting author Susan McKay who said she was speaking from Derry at the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee on Wednesday. Himself an MP for East Londonderry, Mr Campbell told Ms McKay she “probably meant to say” she was speaking from Londonderry “but didn’t”. She replied: “I’m quite happy ...
(from France 24) One of the many consequences of Brexit is the creation of a customs border in the Irish Sea, a move that for some in Northern Ireland has awakened old unionist fears of separation from the mainland. There's also been a lot of talk about the Northern Ireland Protocol stirring up dormant tensions ...
By Peter McGoran for Belfast Live Susan McKay's new book Northern Protestants: On Shifting Ground, sheds a light on Protestant people in Northern Ireland from a wide range of backgrounds Susan McKay, author of new book Northern Protestants: On Shifting Ground, has said that there is "diversity" in the Protestant community which often goes unrecognised ...
Susan McKay shares her musical memories and chats with Des on the Island about growing up in Derry during the Troubles, how she couldn't wait to leave, but quickly found herself returning to help set up the Belfast Rape Crisis Centre ...
The North has changed dramatically, and unionism, instead of celebrating the centenary of the foundation of the Northern Irish state it used to dominate, is in crisis (in the Irish Times) “It’s a limed nest, this place, I see a plain Presbyterian grace sour, then harden, As a free strenuous spirit changes To a servile ...