{"id":2671,"date":"2014-04-23T08:52:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T07:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/?p=2671"},"modified":"2014-04-23T08:52:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T07:52:16","slug":"unionist-columnist-pens-new-republican-ideology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/?p=2671","title":{"rendered":"Unionist Columnist Pens New Republican Ideology"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>DR JOHN COULTER, an author and journalist from a Unionist background, has just published a new e-book on a non-violent, pro-Christian Irish Republican ideology.<\/p>\n

Entitled \u2018An Saise Glas (The Green Sash): The Road to National Republicanism, the launch of the e-book has been timed to coincide with traditional Republican commemorations of the Easter Rising.<\/p>\n

Dr Coulter openly styles himself as \u201can unrepentant Radical Right-wing Unionist\u201d and while he has been in journalism since 1978, he has latterly been best known as a controversial columnist with the Irish Daily Star.<\/p>\n

Dr Coulter, 54, is the son of the Rev Dr Robert Coulter MBE. His father \u2013 an Irish Presbyterian Minister and leading Orange chaplain – was an Ulster Unionist MLA for North Antrim for 13 years.<\/p>\n

Dr Coulter said: \u201cDuring the Troubles, I reported on the deaths of numerous people murdered by republican terrorists. But it was the murder of my friend Constable Steve Carroll in March 2009 which prompted me to write a new non-violent ideology for Republicanism.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn Saise Glas has been a four-year journey and I am openly writing this e-book as an outsider looking in. I hope my e-book will prompt discussion among Republicans as to how they take their ideology forward, and also among Unionists as to how they inter-act with Republicans.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cI also seek to guide Republicanism away from the Godless Marxism which seems to have steadily gripped the ideology since the days of James Connolly and the 1916 Rising.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe recent scandals involving convicted paedophile priests have driven a wedge between the Catholic Church hierarchy and Republicanism. My new ideology of National Republicanism seeks to re-introduce the Biblical teachings of Jesus Christ, especially the Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount, into Republican thinking.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe e-book also examines Republicanism\u2019s relations with the European Union, the Unionist community, coping with its violent past, and international relations,\u201d said Dr Coulter.<\/p>\n

Dr Coulter began his journalism career with his local weekly papers in his home town of Ballymena. After graduation from Coleraine University, he became a freelance journalist with the BBC before joining the staff of the News Letter where he became Education and Religious Affairs Correspondent.<\/p>\n

He has also worked as a deputy editor and editor of local weekly titles and as a public relations director, and latterly in journalist training. He is married with two sons, and is a member of Maghaberry Elim Church in Co Antrim.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the link to Amazon Kindle:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/An-Saise-Glas-National-Republicanism-ebook\/dp\/B00JRVIQ5Y\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1397813806&sr=8-1&keywords=dr+john+coulter<\/a><\/p>\n

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