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The parties to political debate in Ulster are not the organizations familiar to American or British politicians. While some organize to advance their aims by winning votes at elections, others use violence and are organized to do everything from providing armed defense of communities to carrying out assassinations and bombings. A few groups do both. These are dual-purpose movements, with one wing concentrating on electoral politics and another on violent politics. There are also protest groups that move back and forth in the shadowy world between what is formally legal and formally illegal.
A fundamental problem since the earliest years of Northern Ireland’s existence has been the disagreement not just about how Northern Ireland should be governed, but as to whether it should continue to exist at all.
British Government White Paper, 1973
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See T. Desmond Williams and Galen Broeker, Rural Disorder and Police Reform in Ireland, 1812–36 ( London: Routledge, 1970 ).
William Craig, The Future of Northern Ireland ( Belfast: United Loyalist Council pamphlet, 1973 ), p. 9.
William Craig, First Anniversary Rally Speech ( Belfast: Ulster Vanguard pamphlet, 1973 ), p. 6.
See Martin Dillon and Denis Lehane, Political Murder in Northern Ireland ( Harmondsworth: Penguin Special, 1973 ).
see Sarah Nelson, “Protestant ‘Ideology’ Considered”, in Ivor Crewe, ed., British Political Sociology Yearbook, vol. 2 ( London: Croom Helm, 1975 ).
See P. A. and D. J. D. Roche, W. D. Birrell and J. E. Greer, “A Socio-Political Opinion Profile of Clergymen in Northern Ireland”, Social Studies (Dublin), vol. 4, no. 2 (1975), pp. 143–51.
See L. J. Callaghan, A House Divided (London: Collins, 1973).
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Rose, R. (1976). The Parties to the Conflict. In: Northern Ireland. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15721-1_4
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