Book Review: Shinners, dissos and dissenters: Irish republican media activism since the Good Friday Agreement by Paddy Hoey, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2018, 207 + xii pp., £70 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-5261-1424-2, £23. 2020 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-5261-1425-9

This book adds a great deal to the recent literature on post-Good Friday Agreement Irish republicanism, with a particular emphasis upon the dissident (and dissenting) elements that have sought to challenge the hegemonic claims of Provisional Sinn Féin. The latter enjoys significant electoral dominance within the fragmented republican ‘family’, but Hoey examines the efforts of an assortment of counter-hegemonic groupings, from traditionalists like Republican Sinn Féin (RSF) to media activist forums like The Blanket, to carve out a dissenting space in opposition to the ‘establishment republicanism’ of SF (p. 20).