Word: armagh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...away as Malta and West Germany and 7,000 police. As one senior army officer put it, "a sparrow could not have coughed without being arrested." Though more than 100,000 Protestants donned bowler hats for Orange Order parades in such potential trouble spots as Belfast, Londonderry, Maghera and Armagh, there was no violence. The only casualties of the week came three days later, when a bomb planted in a Belfast bank by an unknown terrorist hurt 31 bystanders...
That did it. In three cities-Armagh, Belfast and Londonderry-Catholics took to the streets in protest. In the ensuing riots, four men were killed and at least 200 injured, including 100 soldiers. "If I'd been the devil himself, trying my best to cause more trouble here," said a Belfast journalist, "I couldn't have chosen a better time to jail Bernadette." The specter of more open fighting loomed once again over Northern Ireland's tense cities...
Militant Protestants paraded with placards urging the state to CONTINUE DEVLIN'S UPBRINGING IN THE ARMAGH GAOL. Partisan Catholics punctuated her defense in Londonderry's squat Victorian courthouse with foot stomping and applause. Moderates on both sides feared a new outburst of violence when the trial of Bernadette Devlin, the 22-year-old British M.P. and civil rights firebrand, came to an end last week. To their relief, the fragile peace that has prevailed between Northern Ireland's Catholics and Protestants since last August's rioting was preserved...