{"id":489001,"date":"2022-01-28T09:53:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T09:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=232628"},"modified":"2022-01-28T09:53:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T09:53:46","slug":"belfast-branaghs-pathetic-paean-to-northern-irelands-protestant-fascism-and-british-imperialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/01\/28\/belfast-branaghs-pathetic-paean-to-northern-irelands-protestant-fascism-and-british-imperialism\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBelfast:\u201d Branagh\u2019s Pathetic Paean to Northern Ireland\u2019s Protestant Fascism and British Imperialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belfast, written, invented, and directed by Kenneth Branagh, is the story of a white, Protestant family in Belfast in 1969\u2014In Northern Ireland\u2014at a time of mass, Catholic civil rights demonstrations against British-supported Fascist Protestant \u201cUnionists.\u201d In response, the family stands by and does nothing, engages in hackneyed, cloying, family rituals, eats potatoes, drinks beer, declares  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/01\/28\/belfast-branaghs-pathetic-paean-to-northern-irelands-protestant-fascism-and-british-imperialism\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/01\/28\/belfast-branaghs-pathetic-paean-to-northern-irelands-protestant-fascism-and-british-imperialism\/\">&#8220;Belfast:&#8221; Branagh\u2019s Pathetic Paean to Northern Ireland\u2019s Protestant Fascism and British Imperialism<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/01\/28\/belfast-branaghs-pathetic-paean-to-northern-irelands-protestant-fascism-and-british-imperialism\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belfast, written, invented, and directed by Kenneth Branagh, is the story of a white, Protestant family in Belfast in 1969\u2014In Northern Ireland\u2014at a time of mass, Catholic civil rights demonstrations against British-supported Fascist Protestant \u201cUnionis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":531,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489808,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489001\/revisions\/489808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}