 "The Faithful Tribe" was criticised by Ulster Protestant journalist Susan McKay as "sentimental and blinkered", but the "New Statesman" contributor Stephen Howe described it as "engrossing and illuminating" and the "Irish Independent" journalist John A. Murphy described it as "enormously readable, entertaining and informative", but "[her argument] 'extremely disingenuous'", and he quotes Shakespeare, 'The lady doth protest too much, methinks', when describing one of her counter-arguments as 'exaggerated'.He added "Historically in Ireland, Protestant 'liberties' tended to mean Protestant 'privilege,' and many Protestants (even including some United Irishmen) doubted whether Roman Catholics were constitutionally capax libertatis capable of appreciating or enjoying liberty at all, because of Roman tyranny and priest-craft.In short, the Orange Protestant is still benightedly living in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries