Abstract
In Northern Ireland, culture is one of many terrains on which political struggles are waged. The orientation of much of politics around a single axis has meant that issues which might elsewhere be regarded as ‘merely’ cultural acquire here an intense political significance. Culture is seen as one battlefield on which the broader political struggle can be fought, the interests of one’s own national community advanced, and those of the other retarded. Nor is anything in Northern Ireland ‘merely’ symbolic: in this region, symbols mark territory, reinforce identities, and perpetuate political divisions. In these circumstances, it is not surprising that both unionists and nationalists see the conflict over culture as a zero-sum game: any gain for one side must entail a loss for the other. If the insti
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