Deals directly with the question of whether cultural differences between Irish Protestants and Irish Catholics have had significant and casually important effects on the behaviour of the two groups. The conclusion of the author's analysis is that, based on the research of the Irish in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and United States as well as in Ireland itself, there are few significant social or economic differences between the two groups. In actual fact the author found indications of fundamental similarities. In view of this observation, the author asks the question that given the demonstrated opinions of Irish Catholics and Protestants, what factors in Irish society have kept them at loggerheads? The author focuses on Irish taboos against inter-marriage, the segregation in education, and the nature of Protestant and Catholic belief.
- ISBN10 0717118762
- ISBN13 9780717118762
- Publish Date 31 December 1988 (first published 1 January 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 August 1997
- Publish Country IE
- Publisher Gill
- Imprint Gill & Macmillan Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256
- Language English