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O’Doherty examines the many ambiguities that surround the notion of a collective Irish, Catholic, nationalist identity. He suggests that many of the traditional indicators of this culture remain equivocal. The Irish language is respected but not widely spoken. The ideal of Irish unity has receded. Brexit may revive it, but that is under the auspices of an Ireland as part of an international community, very different from the ideal of De Valera, that it should be insular and protected, or of Adams in 1977, that it should be a socialist state.
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Set up by Queen’s University Belfast and University of Ulster and run every year, the survey aims to put on record the attitudes, values and beliefs of the people in Northern Ireland on a wide range of social policy issues.
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O’Doherty, M. (2018). ‘E pluribus unum; The Elusiveness of a Singular Community Identity’. In: Burgess, T. (eds) The Contested Identities of Ulster Catholics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78804-3_6
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