The Contested Identities of Ulster Catholics

1 Introduction; Thomas Paul Burgess.- 2 The State We're In: - Imagining a New Republic; the Challenge to Irish Nationalism; Thomas Paul Burgess.- 3 Catholics in Northern Ireland: Changing Political Attitudes, 1968-2018; John Coakley.- 4 Rights versus Rites? Catholic women and abortion access in Northern Ireland; Claire Pierson.- 5 Tough, violent and virtually ungovernable'? Northern nationalists in the Irish Republic. A historical context; Brian Hanley.- 6 'E pluribus unum; The Elusiveness of a Singular Community Identity';  Malachi O'Doherty.- 7 The Story of Catholic Schools in Northern Ireland; past, present and possible future; Tony Gallagher.- 8 Paddy Devlin, the Labour Movement and the Catholic Community: A biographical methodology; Connal Parr.- 9 Sport, Politics and Catholics in Northern Ireland; David Hassan and Conor Murray.- 10 From the Frontlines of War to the Side-lines of Peace? Gender, Republicanism and the Peace Process; Niall Gilmartin.- 11 From Platitude to Realpolitik; Challenging Generic Designations; Tommy Mc Kearney.- 12 Meet the New Boss...Same as the Old Boss: Assessing Republican Attitudes toward the Protestant, Unionist and Loyalist Communities of Northern Ireland; Gareth Mulvenna.- 13 Ideology and Identity in the Founding Group of the Social Democratic and Labour Party: Evaluating the Life-writing of a Political Generation; Stephen Hopkins.- 14 Republican Fragmentation in the Face of Enduring Partition; Anthony McIntyre.- 15 Ambivalence in a post-conflict society: Young Catholics growing up in Northern Ireland; Aimee Smith.

Thomas Paul Burgess is Senior Lecturer at the School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, Ireland. He holds degrees from the universities of Oxford, Ulster and Cork. His most recent academic work is The Contested Identities of Ulster Protestants (edited with Gareth Mulvenna, 2015).