Loyalist ideology, characterised by a central binary opposition between Ulster Protestant and native Irish Catholic, is being pushed to its limits by the new loyalist spokesmen. Is loyalism undergoing transformation? Its ideology is experientially confirmed for its adherents by the continuing unequal and unstable power balance in Northern Ireland and on the island as a whole but some possibilities of change have emerged. To encourage further development socio-structural changes both North and South would be required to undermine the loyalist binary oppositions and a framework of dialogue would be needed to provide alternative meanings.
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