Unionism in Northern Ireland Today
Unionist – and nationalist – convictions in Northern Ireland are expressed in a number of different ways: through everyday preferences (which need not be consistent for each individual) such as choice of newspaper or sports team, participation in a locally developed unionist or nationalist subculture, and voting for the appropriate political parties and candidates at election time.
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Famous quotes containing the words unionism, northern, ireland and/or today:
“What is Virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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Great hatred, little room
Maimed us at the start.
I carry from my mother’s womb
A fanatic’s heart.”
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