Michael McDonald - Not Before 12, a journey

This week has been enlightening. Following some research I've literally stumbled across the excellent book by John Brewer available on Amazon. The CAIN web service have secured rights to reproduce some of the content and in that context I am republishing it here. The usual disclaimer:  This publication is copyright John D. Brewer 1998 and is included on the CAIN site by permission of Macmillan Press Ltd and the author. You may not edit, adapt, or redistribute changed versions of this for other than your personal use without express written permission. Redistribution for commercial purposes is not permitted. Northern Ireland was not the invention of a cartographer who quickly scrambled together an incoherent border in a situation of rapid and violent decolonisation. Protestants did not have to artificially construct a sense of nationhood, for they had long defined their identity around two antinomies or opposites; the one religious, the other national. Northern Ireland defined ...