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The foundation of the Northern Ireland State in 1921 – the politicalconflict and violence which accompanied the foundation andsubsequent maladministration of the State – created substantial democraticissues in the region. These democratic issues, often referred to during theinter-war period as issues of ‘civil liberty’ rather than rights, formed thebasis for the development of the Civil Rights Movement in Northern Irelandin the 1960s. The Northern Ireland State from inception was ademocratised ancien régime,1 a poetics and aesthetics of loyalty; it is thisrégime of police order I designate ‘the moral economy of loyalty’.2 Thoseconsidered loyal were recognised, granted ‘liberties’ and given thepatronage of the State and the local elite. All opposition, by contrast, wasdesignated disloyal. This created a number of outsiders in local society:liberals, independent Unionists, Irish nationalists, Irish republicans andseparatists, Gaelic language enthusiasts, Catholics, progressives and the leftand Labour, were all considered disloyal. The long history of the Civil RightsMovement in Northern Ireland can be traced to the political decisions andadministration of the 1920s and 1930s. It was from the cauldron of disloyalpolitics in the inter-war period that the Civil Rights Movement eventuallyemerged in Northern Ireland.
Author(s): Loughlin CJV
Editor(s): Seán Byers and Francis Devine
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: William Walker 1870-1918 : Belfast Labour Unionist Centenary Essays
Year: 2018
Pages: 220
Print publication date: 01/10/2018
Online publication date: 01/10/2018
Acceptance date: 01/01/2018
Publisher: Umiskin Press
Place Published: Dublin, Ireland
URL: https://umiskinpress.wordpress.com/home/william-walker-1870-1918/
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9781916448902
