ABSTRACT
This chapter examines revisionist unionist and loyalist attitudes towards power sharing, between nationalism and unionism in Northern Ireland, and revisionist unionists and loyalist attitudes towards the bi-national nature of Northern Ireland. The Politics of War and Peace offers a useful outline of a unionist interpretation of Irish history. The Ulster Unionist Party was the dominant party in Northern Ireland during the Stormont era between 1921-72. A civic unionism which has not as its ultimate end the union per se, but the quality of social and political life in Northern Ireland that includes not just unionists but also nationalists and non-unionists of other descriptions. Jonathan Tonge concluded that intra-unionist rivalry destabilised the Good Friday Agreement, and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) prospered in opposing the deal. Finally, it proves that this revisionist Ulster unionism has undermined the use of political violence within unionism and loyalism.
