ONE: Wichert, Sabine. (1991) Northern Ireland since 1945. London: Longman. Wichert's book focuses on the social and economic factors affecting Northern Ireland from 1945 to the 1980s. Wichert's main theme is that the present troubles in Northern Ireland are due to the failure to resolve problems stemming from Ireland's partition. The author claims that the reforms of unionism under Terence O'Neill have been inadequate to improve the economy or the nation in any manner that appeases Catholics without offending Protestants. The book takes an economic focus, providing the economic changes and state interventions that have occurred, followed by the reactions of different significant groups to them.
The author presents the information from an alleged nonpartisan perspective, but there are times when bias seems apparent. The use of the words "British", "Irish", and "American" are capitalized but "protestant" and "catholic" are not (Wichert 1991). Further, the depiction of Ian Paisley seems bia
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