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The foundation of the Northern Ireland State in 1921 – the political conflict and violence which accompanied the foundation and subsequent maladministration of the State – created substantial democratic issues in the region. These democratic issues, often referred to during the inter-war period as issues of ‘civil liberty’ rather than rights, formed the basis for the development of the Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland in the 1960s. The Northern Ireland State from inception was a democratised ancien régime,1 a poetics and aesthetics of loyalty; it is this régime of police order I designate ‘the moral economy of loyalty’.2 Those considered loyal were recognised, granted ‘liberties’ and given the patronage of the State and the local elite. All opposition, by contrast, was designated disloyal. This created a number of outsiders in local society: liberals, independent Unionists, Irish nationalists, Irish republicans and separatists, Gaelic language enthusiasts, Catholics, progressives and the left and Labour, were all considered disloyal. The long history of the Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland can be traced to the political decisions and administration of the 1920s and 1930s. It was from the cauldron of disloyal politics in the inter-war period that the Civil Rights Movement eventually emerged 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: 19/10/2018
Acceptance date: 02/04/2018
Publisher: Umiskin Press
Place Published: Dublin, Ireland
URL: https://umiskinpress.wordpress.com/home/william-walker-1870-1918/
Notes: 9781916448919 paperback ISBN.
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9781916448902
