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Unionism in Ulster is often considered to be paradoxical and paradox is commonly thought to make its politics radically incoherent. From this perspective, Unionists are simultaneously too British and not British enough, a perspective which lends itself to the explanatory categor…

It is the premise of this study that in the Tudor period there developed a new sense of being/feeling ‘cosmopolitan’ – i.e. a citizen of the world - that was distinct from the original, political, meaning of this term and was instead defined by cross cultural engagement, interna…