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Class Conflict and Sectarianism
註釋Belfast's Protestant working class has raised numerous problems for historians. Why should the most industrially developed part of Ireland, far from being the centre of conflict, have been what James Connolly called 'the happy hunting ground of the slave driver and the home of the least rebellious slaves in the industrial world'? Many observers have taken the Protestant working class to be dupes of the Orange Order, but in this important analysis of the effects of Orangeism and Unionism on Belfast's political life, Henry Patterson argues that the real strength of Orangeism lay not simply in it.