Northern Protestants: On Shifting Ground by Susan McKay review â a community at a crossroads
A Union flag is held aloft in Sandy Row, Belfast, during Twelfth of July celebrations in 2017. Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters
A Union flag is held aloft in Sandy Row, Belfast, during Twelfth of July celebrations in 2017. Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters
Brexit negotiations, LGBTQ+ rights and loyalist violence unite and divide in a collection of candid interviews with those who feel âoutside the unionist mainstreamâ
Sun 27 Jun 2021 02.00 EDT
Growing up Protestant in Derry in the 1960s, Susan McKay was familiar with what she calls âthe old cry of âno surrender!ââ, which rang out at local unionist marches and gatherings. Towards the end of the decade, as civil rights protesters demanded an end to a political system designed to disempower Catholics, that unionist rallying cry grew louder and more strident in its opposition to the same.
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DUP MP for East Londonderry, Gregory Campbell, NIAC Chair, Simon Hoare, MP, and Northern Ireland journalist and author, Susan McKay. Good morning Ms. McKay - it s good to hear you are speaking from Londonderry, said Mr. Campbell. I think Londonderry was what you meant to say but didn t, he added.
Ms. McKay responded: I am quite happy to refer to it as Londonderry if you want me to, Mr. Campbell.
After a brief interruption from the Chair, Mr. Campbell went on to question the authority with which Ms. McKay talks about Northern Ireland. You don t live here and haven t lived here for many years, I think that s the bottom line, said Mr. Campbell.,
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