Descendancy : Irish Protestant histories since 1795 /
David Fitzpatrick, Trinity College Dublin.
- ix, 271 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Protestant descendancy in Ireland. -- Orangeism -- Orangeism and Irish military history -- The Orange Order and the border -- The gardener and the stable boy : Yeats, MacNeice, and the problem of Orangeism -- Methodism and the Orange Order -- Covenant. -- Ulster's covenanters -- Ulster's non-covenanters -- Exodus? -- Protestant depopulation and the Irish Revolution -- The spectre of 'ethnic cleansing' in revolutionary Ireland.