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‘May you live in interesting times’, as the ancient Chinese curse would have it. And whilst undeniably ‘interesting’, disorder, change and democratic deficit have irrefutably been to the fore in the recent political developments of Northern Ireland.
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one tribe.
—Plato. The Republic
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Burgess, T.P. (2018). Introduction. In: Burgess, T. (eds) The Contested Identities of Ulster Catholics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78804-3_1
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