Category Archives: Northern Ireland

What happened to the North’s Progressive Presbyterians?

Posted on Friday, 1 August, 2014 by andypollak

My summer reading in recent weeks has been a fascinating book called Dissenting Voices: Recovering the Irish Progressive Presbyterian Tradition1, by the former head of the Simon Community in Northern Ireland, Roger Courtney. It features short biographies of 300 ‘progressive … Continue reading →

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Are the Catholics taking over Northern Ireland (1)?

Posted on Friday, 24 January, 2014 by andypollak

Maybe the loyalist flag riots in Belfast 12 months ago weren’t so strange and unexpected after all. If you were a not very well-educated working class loyalist watching what was happening in Northern Ireland over the past decade or so … Continue reading →

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Seamus Heaney and the Unionists

Posted on Wednesday, 25 September, 2013 by andypollak

What more can be said about the wonderful human being and literary genius that was Seamus Heaney, the greatest Irish poet since W.B.Yeats and one of the finest people ever to come out of Northern Ireland? One thing I have … Continue reading →

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