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Who is speaking for the Union? It is a question that has been asked for several decades by Northern Ireland citizens anxious about the firmness of their place in the United Kingdom. It is now a question that will be asked with increasing concern by unionists in England, Scotland and Wales. In 'The Idea of the Union: Great Britain and Northern Ireland', historians, distinguished politicians, economists, political journalists, cultural historians and versatile scholars on both sides of the water break cover and declare for the Union. The 20 contributors include David Trimble, Mike Nesbitt, Ray Bassett, and Graham Gudgin. The Foreword is by Baroness Hoey. 'The Idea of the Union' is a manifesto in favour of the constitutional link between Northern Ireland and Great Britain, and between the nations of the kingdom. It also promotes cultural relations in the British Isles. But primarily, it is a handbook of arguments, rooted in history and the real world, against Northern Ireland's severance from Great Britain. Irish separatist nationalism has had a fair innings. Now it's time for reason and reality to go to bat.    

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John Wilson Foster was born and grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was educated at Queen’s University, Belfast, and earned his doctorate in English literature at the University of Oregon while teaching as a part-time instructor. His teaching and research career was spent at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, of which he is a professor emeritus. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Among his publications are The Achievement of Seamus Heaney (Lilliput Press, 1995); Nature in Ireland: A Scientific and Cultural History (senior editor, Lilliput Press, 1997); The Titanic Reader (Penguin Putnam, 2000); Pilgrims of the Air: The Passing of the Passenger Pigeons (Notting Hill Editions, 2014; New York Review Books, 2017).

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