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I first became interested in Orangeism at the academic level after I was appointed in the 1990s to the Foundation Glucksman Chair of Irish and Scottish Studies and became the first Director of the AHRC Centre of Irish and Scottish Studies at Aberdeen(in association with Trinity College, Dublin and Queen s University, Belfast). Our remit was to carry out advanced comparative and interdisciplinary research on Irish and Scottish History, Literatures and Languages. Few subjects combined such a close association between the North of Ireland and Lowland Scotland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as the history of the Orange Order.
Irish-seaIreland-generalIrelandGlasgowGlasgow-cityUnited-kingdomRomeLazioItalyWest-lothianLanarkshireSouth-lanarkshireThe debate over Scottish independence hotted up yesterday after former SNP leader Alex Salmond gave incendiary evidence to a cross-party committee at Holyrood.
Salmond accused current First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and former colleagues, including Peter Murrell, Sturgeon’s husband and SNP chief executive, of engaging in ‘a deliberate, prolonged, malicious and concerted effort’ to destroy his reputation and career, even to the point of having him jailed.
The increasingly ugly row is now reaching such a pitch that some reckon it could even play a decisive role in preserving the union by eroding support for independence.
But here a literary giant, who would rather be British than English, explains why he thinks the Union has no future . . .
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