United Irishmen, United States: Immigrant Radicals in the Early Republic
by David A. Wilson
Category: Immigrants

Argues that the cause of the Ulster loyalists in Northern Ireland has been poorly presented in the British media, and that this has caused a predominantly hostile public opinion of the loyalists in mainland Britain. Analyzing a wide variety of media treatments of a narrow number of incidents (including the Eniskillen bombing of 1987), the author explores recurring themes of media representations of loyalism. Additional chapters briefly analyze the views of the loyalists and explore the meaning of opinion polls conducted by the author in six English cities. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR