“There were still Protestants in Monaghan who were targeted in the 1970s and 1980s because of what their ancestors did”
UCD war historian Edward Burke's next book, Ulster's Lost Counties, is a study of a forgotten aspect of Irish history: loyalism in the three Ulster counties that weren’t partitioned and where that population felt left behind. In conversation with Dion Fanning, he discusses the memory and mythology accumulated in Ireland's borderlands and in similar frontier regions elsewhere in Europe. They also talk about Burke's participation in the recent forum on international security policy, the threats facing Ireland and the gap between the protests that targeted the forum and how he thinks citizens perceive those issues.
