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interest in the past that made them aware of having ‘participated in’ history. While this was not a ‘representative’ slice of the population, my concern was not for ‘representativity’ – how many men, women, of x age or y social class make a miniature copy of the population at large – but for a range of subjective experiences. The interviewees were sought by writing to local archives, war veterans’ associations, local community centres, elderly people’s social clubs and local genealogical circles. They were born between 1915 and 1939 and distributed across the towns. A
social class. As a consequence, modern liberal societies have established sets of rules that are meant to be universal for their citizens. This was a major shift from the ancient societies of the Ancien Régime , in which certain individuals were able to enjoy distinctive rights that were solely based on their belonging to certain classes. 3 As a consequence, the capacity to pursue happiness was, of course, unequal in such
facilitate the development of multiethnic political coalitions by providing incentives to decouple politics from identity and ethnicity. Political conflict should therefore coalesce around other cleavages, or cross-cutting forms of division, such as social class. To facilitate this change, proponents of this approach suggest that the electoral system should encourage pre-election pacts across ethnic lines
the PUP, was the only unionist to vote in favour of the Northern Ireland Bill of Rights. Although fearful of ‘expansionist’ nationalism and republicanism, loyalist former prisoners have co-operated on a pragmatic basis in lowering localised territorial, sectarian and cultural tensions during the Orange ‘marching season’ and have supported, on social-class lines, republican efforts to abolish the
public health during the Emergency. Wartime bread quality was a major contributing factor. In 1944 the government undertook a nationwide survey to examine the relationship between nutrition and physical health. Research undertaken into dietary standards across social class groups in Dublin, undertaken in early 1946, noted a calcium deficiency seemingly caused by the popularly
. 75 R. Lynch, ‘Explaining the Altnaveigh massacre’, Éire-Ireland , 45:3 (autumn 2010), 200–15, 210. 76 Ellison and Smyth, Crowned Harp , p. 25; P. Bew, P. Gibbon and H. Patterson, Northern Ireland 1921–2001: Political Forces and Social Classes
century. Although this rose during the 1890s, it remained significantly below the levels witnessed elsewhere in the United Kingdom. 4 However, the difference between urban and rural Ireland was very evident. For instance, Dublin had a particularly high infant mortality rate. 5 Social class was a key determinant of infant mortality rates. The babies of labourers were
groups. Initiated under Hansson’s grand coalition of the SAP, the conservatives, the liberals and the agrarians, it signified a turn in Swedish politics that revealed a wide form of consensus between all social classes rather than an adversarial style of politics. Coming out of the war years, employees refrained from demanding higher wages, consumers adhered to rationing, manufacturers froze prices and a general
1921–2001: Political Forces and Social Classes (London: Serif, 2002), p. 49). 21 Kidd, ‘Ministry of Health for Northern Ireland’, 229. 22 Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
the year after the outbreak of the Troubles compared with the earlier period, most notably amongst men, those over forty years and those in social classes four and five. He attributed the fall in the incidence of depressive disorders to the greater opportunities to externalising aggression. Subsequently, other explanations were explored, including the possibility that the reductions might have arisen