Using ethnographic methods, the author explores the subcultural world of young Loyalists and examines the role of youth cultural practices in the reproduction of ethnic identity and in the reconstruction of tradition in Irish society.

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Book Title: Acts of Union
Book Subtitle: Youth Culture and Sectarianism in Northern Ireland
Authors: Desmond Bell
Series Title: Youth Questions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21014-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-21014-5Published: 05 October 1990
Series ISSN: 2947-3241
Series E-ISSN: 2947-325X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 216
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: Ethnicity Studies, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Youth Culture

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Youth Culture and Ethnic Identity

Sons and Daughters of the Gael: Youth in Irish Social Thought

Situating Sectarianism: Territory, Identity and Empire in Ulster

Sketches of the Marching Season

Youth and Ghettoization in Northern Ireland

Economic Marginalization and Blocked Inheritance

Postscript on Practice

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