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Assessing the impact of paramilitary violence on border Protestants in Northern Ireland remains a critically overlooked part of the region’s history. Remembered through a framework of memory that blurs the boundary between victim and perpetrator, existing scholarship often disempowers border Protestants by obscuring their experience under the Provisional IRA’s campaign. This re-examination of the conflict illuminates how the Troubles impacted the Protestant community’s physical, economic, and cultural presence in the border counties. Combining oral history with a broader assessment of the Provisional campaign, this book presents a compelling case study for viewing this violence as a form of ethnic cleansing.
Kenneth Funston gained his doctorate in 2020 from Ulster University, with a thesis focusing on the minority Protestant population of County Fermanagh and republican violence. He has worked with victims of terrorism, speaking at many conferences and debates in order to highlight victims’ issues. His research examining the effects of republican violence on the border has appeared in publications such as the Financial Times and the Belfast News Letter.He has also worked collaboratively with Spanish representatives of victims of ETA terror, highlighting the similarity of issues faced by victims and survivors.
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Acknowledgements
Foreword
Professor Henry Patterson
Introduction: Moving On and Losing Out
Part I: Memory and the Northern Ireland Conflict
Chapter 1. The Past in Northern Ireland
Chapter 2. Memory, Forgetting, and Trauma in Northern Ireland
Part II: Memory on the Border
Chapter 3. Protestant Memory on the Border in the 1970s
Chapter 4. Targeted Killings and Community Trauma (1980–1987)
Chapter 5.From the Enniskillen Poppy Day Atrocity to the 1994 Ceasefire
Part III: Memory on the Margins of History
Chapter 6. Protestant Memory of Ethnic Cleansing
Chapter 7. Hubris and Insult
Conclusion: The Northern Ireland Vichy Syndrome
Appendix: Chronological List of Deaths in Fermanagh
Bibliography
Index