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For Ministry Leaders PodcastThe Soulwinning Pastor - Dr. Alan FongFrom the Spiritual Leadership Conference at Lancaster Baptist Church
Session Notes: https://slconference.com/sites/default/files/outlines/alan-fong-the-soulwinning-pastor.pdf
2022-03-111h 01For Ministry Leaders PodcastHonoring Truth in Succession - Lloyd ReadFrom the Spiritual Leadership Conference at Lancaster Baptist Church
Session Notes: https://slconference.com/sites/default/files/outlines/lloyd-read-honoring-truth-in-succession.pdf
2022-03-1147 minFor Ministry Leaders PodcastSetting the Course with a Fresh Vision - Pastor Paul ChappellSession Notes: https://slconference.com/sites/default/files/outlines/2021-10-06-pastor-paul-chappell-casting-fresh-vision.pdf
From the Spiritual Leadership Conference at Lancaster Baptist Church
2022-03-111h 12For Ministry Leaders PodcastDeclaring the gospel in your community - Pastor Paul ChappellFrom the Spiritual Leadership Conference at Lancaster Baptist Church
Session Notes: https://slconference.com/sites/default/files/outlines/2021-10-05-pastor-paul-chappell-in-your-community.pdf
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?????????????Episode 24 - Panel 6b - Conservatism with a small ‘c’; Loyalism with a small ‘l’? The ‘Skibbereen Eagle’ ...Framing the overlapping networks of unionism, conservatism and loyalism in pre-revolutionary Ireland is a challenge. This becomes more acute the closer one gets to the twentieth century and the disappearance of political power from the unionist class. ‘Hard’ power became replaced with ‘soft’ power (much to the chagrin of diverse characters such as Lord Barrymore and DP Moran). The nostalgia of prudent management and benevolent dispersal of money and services became more acute as the acien regime was swept from their bastions of power following the passage of the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898.
In the sphere of the press, conservatism, loyalism...
2017-10-1528 min?????????????Episode 22 - Panel 6a - Southern Protestant Manufacturing Interests: the Union, Partition and Protection - Prof. Fran...Most of the large manufacturing firms in the Irish Free State in 1922 had been established by Protestant unionist families and remained under Protestant ownership and management. These included Guinness, Jacobs, Goodbody’s (jute), the Cleeve Brothers’ Condensed Milk Company of Ireland, Goulding’s (fertiliser), Smyth & Co. (hosiery), Denny’s (bacon), the Limerick Clothing Co., and a number of linen manufacturers. These firms were export-oriented and fully integrated into the British and colonial markets.
The large Catholic/nationalist-owned firms of the time, by contrast – in sectors such as clothing, bread, printing and agricultural implements – were largely oriented towards the domestic market.
The politica...
2017-10-1531 min?????????????Episode 23 - Panel 6b - Municipal Unionism in Dublin 1898 – 1922 - Dr. Ciarán WallaceFrom the 1860s nationalists gradually came to dominate Dublin Corporation. In 1898 new legislation dramatically expanded the municipal franchise and the arrival of Labour and Sinn Féin in the early twentieth century radicalized city politics. Throughout this period, however, a small but solid bloc of unionists were consistently returned to City Hall. Meanwhile, in Dublin’s suburbs unionist enjoyed secure majorities, administering the daily affairs of Rathmines and Pembroke Urban District Councils. How did this long-established, resilient and influential electorate fare as Home Rule loomed and revolution erupted?
Local government played a crucial, and intimate, role in the lives of the...
2017-10-1534 min?????????????Episode 21 - Panel 6a - Southern protestant voices during the Irish War of Independence and Civil War: reports from C...In this paper the experiences of southern protestants during the period 1919-23 will be charted through eye witness accounts in the form of speeches from annual synods of the Church of Ireland, a source which has hitherto been ignored. Members of the Church of Ireland comprised the largest section of the protestant population in the 26 counties which became the Irish Free State. In 1911 members numbered just under 250,000, nearly 8 per cent of the population, but in 1926 they numbered 164,000, a decline of 34 per cent. Throughout these turbulent years, a general synod of church members continued to meet in Dublin each May, after...
2017-10-1537 min?????????????Episode 20 - Panel 5b - “It was the done thing”: Irish unionist attitudes to war and neutrality, and southern Iri...Throughout the course of the Second World War the position of the southern Irish Protestant community was decidedly pro-British. Nevertheless, the ideological stance of members of the remnant Irish unionist faction within the Irish state was tempered by a general respect for the policy of neutrality initiated by Eamon de Valera’s government in 1939. In addition, notable champions of the Irish unionist interest registered strong objections against the antagonism of the Stormont government towards neutral Eire. They defended the right of southern Ireland to remain neutral and criticized Belfast for stirring up sectarian animosity. They also adverted to the fact th...
2017-10-1535 min?????????????Episode 19 - Panel 5b - "My Colonial Office pass would have proved a pass to the next world": Irish colonia...Ireland provided a rich recruitment ground for the British overseas services in the latter half of the long nineteenth century with the result that, by 1919, Irish administrators, doctors, lawyers, policemen, educationalists, and engineers were to be found working in every corner of the colonial empire. Recent research has exploded the notion that Irish nationalism and British imperialism were, by their definitions, dichotomous. Nonetheless, the great majority of Irish colonial servants recruited during this period were drawn from what the Colonial Office termed Ireland’s ‘loyalist class' – Protestants and so-called ‘Castle Catholics’ who supported the constitutional status quo. This paper, which takes as i...
2017-10-1520 min?????????????Episode 18 - Panel 5a - One, but not the same? The geography of the signing of the Ulster Solemn League and Covenant,...On 28th Sept 1912 over 400,000 loyal men and women across the nine counties of Ulster appended their names to either the Ulster Solemn League and Covenant or the Ulster Declaration. In doing so they pledged their loyalty to the King, their allegiance to the United Kingdom and vociferously proclaimed their opposition to the planned creation of a home rule parliament in Dublin. While the majority of historiography focuses on events at the key signing centres in Belfast, the documents were actually signed at over one thousand separate locations across the nine counties of Ulster overseen by 1546 organising agents. Utilising a digital...
2017-10-1527 min?????????????Episode 17 - Panel 5a - Mapping constituencies of Southern Unionist electoral support 1885-1932 - Jack Kavanagh, Neal...This paper sets out to identify areas of significant Unionist electoral support in ‘Southern’ Ireland. This paper is deliberately refraining from an examination of the six predominantly Unionist counties in Ulster, and will instead examine Unionist support in the rest of Ireland. This paper will start in 1885 as the controversy over the Home Rule bill, 1886 led to a significant change in how candidates identified themselves in elections in Ireland. Prior to 1885, electoral candidates did not use the term ‘Unionist’ but instead were divided between Liberals, Conservatives, and the Irish Parliamentary Party / Home Rule. After 1885 the term ‘Unionist’ became increasingly used by electoral...
2017-10-1525 min?????????????Episode 16 - Panel 4b - Adaptive co- existence? Lord Farnham, southern loyalist and the Irish Free State - Dr. Jonath...In January 2002 at the residual house clearance auction at Farnham House, county Cavan Lot 53 described as “including four coronet shields; flags etc” was sold for €70. It was by no means the most valuable lot but the flags, a few tattered and faded Union Jacks, were symbolic remnants of the fervent loyalism of the Maxwell family of Farnham during the opening decades of the 20th century. This paper traces the changing career of Arthur Kenlis Maxwell, Lord Farnham (1879-1957) from one of the key leaders of southern unionism to life as a member of a minority in the aftermath of Independence. The se...
2017-10-1528 min?????????????Episode 15 - Panel 4a - ‘Disputed legacies: British military charities, the new Irish state and the courts, 1923-29...Were British ex-servicemen in Ireland viewed only as ‘British loyalists’ or those who had fought for or were still associated with ‘the enemy’ in the wake of the Great War and Irish Revolution? To date the works of Taylor, Fitzpatrick and Robinson have gone a long way to address that question and to show the scale and nature of hostility faced by those men and their families during the period of 1920-23, and thereafter, as well as the benefits that they received from the British State. But what other options did they have or could they have? Could they turn to chari...
2017-10-1521 min?????????????Episode 14 - Panel 4a - ‘The future welfare of the Empire will depend more largely on our women and girls’: south...During the First World War thousands of women in Ireland performed a parallel war service to that of men in the British Army. The women joined the Red Cross, St John Ambulance Association, the Irish War Hospital Supply Depot and many other voluntary organisations, offering their time and labour for free. They did so for a variety of motives: personal, political and associational. Many felt a strong identification with the British war effort and a desire to prove their loyalty to Britain, when it was coming under question from Ulster unionists and many of those in Britain, particularly after the...
2017-10-1526 min?????????????Episode 13 - Keynote: 'Great Betrayal or Soft Landing? The fate of Southern Irish Loyalists in comparative perspectiv...The conference keynote was delivered by Dr Tim Wilson, Director of the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews. Dr Wilson is the author of a range of publications on political violence, ethnic violence, and terrorism, including Frontiers of Violence: Conflict and Identity in Ulster and Upper Silesia, 1918-22 (Oxford, 2010) and ‘The Strange Death of Loyalist Monaghan, 1912–1921’ in S. Paseta (ed.), Uncertain Futures: Essays about the Irish Past for Roy Foster (Oxford, 2016).
2017-10-1555 min?????????????Episode 12 - Panel 3b - Building a Southern Loyalism: Cavan and Monaghan Unionists and Ulster 1912-1923 - Dan PurcellThis paper focuses on the loyalist community in Cavan and Monaghan from the signing of the Ulster Covenant through to the establishment of the Irish Free State and the Civil War. In particular, it focuses on the awkward questions of identity faced by the community after the partition of Ireland in 1921 (and by the growing likelihood of this event in the years previous). Cavan and Monaghan, along with Donegal, represented the three Ulster counties with the lowest Protestant populations. Cavan and Monaghan existed on the edges of Ulster itself with loyalist social networks overlapping with the distinctly non-Ulster counties of...
2017-10-1530 min?????????????Episode 11 - Panel 3b - Outmanoeuvring the Dáil: the southern unionist political strategy 1919-1922 - Dr. Owen McGeeThis paper will highlight the continued leadership that southern unionists gave to the unionist position across Ireland during 1919-1922, not least by acting in an advisory capacity to the British cabinet. Highlighting the active role played by the Earl of Midleton upon replacing Sir Edward Carson as the leader of Irish unionism, it will demonstrate how continued influence over Irish financial institutions allowed southern unionists to play a critical role in the negotiation of a truce during the spring and summer 1921, in turn limiting the potential of the Dáil’s initial revolutionary programme of nationalisation.
The Sinn Féin prog...
2017-10-1536 min?????????????Episode 10 - Panel 3a - Revisiting Protestant decline in Ireland, 1911 - 1926 - Donald WoodI discuss the differing reasons put forward by academics for the sharp decline between 1911 and 1926 of the Protestant population of the twenty six counties that formed the Irish Free State.
Census reports from the 1871-1911 period are used to question theories of long term Protestant natural decline. I argue that, up to 1911, Protestant natural change was either neutral or positive and all Protestant decline was due to emigration.
I analyse the detailed information from the 1911 censuses that is now available to cast some new light on the nature of 1911-26 decline and questions some of the conclusions of more recent...
2017-10-1528 min?????????????Episode 9 - Panel 3a - The southern Protestant exodus myth and ethnic cleansing in twentieth-century Ireland - Dr. Jo...After 1968, Northern Ireland experienced nearly thirty years of civil war. Though some denied it, the so-called ‘Long War’ influenced aspects of professional historical writing on Ireland. This paper addresses historical interpretations of the ‘exodus’ of Protestants from southern Ireland between 1911 and 1926. It argues explanations of ethnic conflict in 1920-1923 in the 1990s mirrored interpretations of contemporary violence in Northern Ireland 1968-1998.
In the 1980s and 1990s, the dominant narratives of the war in contemporary Northern Ireland modified. The story of nationalist armed struggle for a united Ireland was sometimes replaced by so-called ‘primitivist’ interpretations. These said the conflict in Ulster was an ancient...
2017-10-1528 min?????????????Episode 8 - Panel 2b - The experience of Waterford loyalists in the revolutionary decade 1912-1923 - Dr. Pat McCarthy“I had been brought up under the union jack and had no desire to live under any other emblem.” The words of C.P. Crane, a Tipperary R.M., in 1923, would have found an echo in the hearts of many of Waterford’s loyalist community. By 1926 their population had declined by 40% compared to 1911 and those who survived now lived in a different environment. In 1912 the small but influential loyalist community in Waterford had been vocal in their opposition to Home Rule. Led by Sir William Goff-Davis Goff and Dr Henry Stuart O’Hara, Church of Ireland bishop of the united dioceses...
2017-10-1527 min?????????????Episode 7 - Panel 2b - Southern Irish Loyalists in a garrison county: Kildare Unionism, 1912-23 - Seamus CullenThe proposed paper is a study of the Southern Unionist community in County Kildare in a time of social and political upheaval. Kildare, in contrast to other counties outside Ulster, was different due to the presence of substantial British army garrisons stationed in the county. With the military at times peaking at ten percent of the population, Unionists in Kildare at all levels in society forged strong connections with the army. During the revolutionary period until the departure of the British army in 1922 the community enjoyed the security associated with living in a garrison county where violence so prevalent elsewhere...
2017-10-1526 min?????????????Episode 6 - Panel 2a -'Seeking a congenial citizenship: the loyalist reimagination of southern Ireland after 1922' ...This paper rests conceptually on a borrowing from sociology, principally a 2011 article by Evelyn Nakano Glenn, 'Constructing citizenship: exclusion, subordination and resistance'. The talk examines examines how, in post-1922 Ireland, southern Irish Protestants approached acquiring a sense of citizenship in the new Ireland. In this, they had to bridge a potentially disastrous disconnection with Ireland, complicated by a genuine geographical patriotism, an inherent uneasiness with an ascendant 'National Catholicism', and a strong sense of otherness. It is argued, though, that, culturally, Protestants had a rather generous a la carte menu of 'belongingness' to draw upon. This allowed them to construct a sense of congenial c...
2017-10-1522 min?????????????Episode 5 - Panel 1b - From Kilderry to Ballynagard: Colonel John George Vaughan Hart and the Unionist experience of ...In 1928, a wealthy Protestant landowner moved his family from their ancestral home in Kilderry, County Donegal, where the family had long been associated with the area, to Ballynagard, County Londonderry. Although Ballynagard was just a few miles along the road from Kilderry crucially they crossed the border. The differences between the two homes were extensive; Ballynagard was not the luxury the family had experienced. Hart, writing in 1924 stated ‘there is no comparison between this place [Kilderry] and Ballynagard […] the latter is on a steep slope, which, […] it is safe to say that the condition of the land has been put back 1...
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