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Impoverished by these laws, Ulster's Catholics were willing to work on farms for far lower wages than the Presbyterian peasantry. At the "Battle of the Diamond" in County Armagh in 1795, Protestant peasants beat up Catholic workers and later that evening founded the Grand Orange Lodge of Ulster. Other Orange lodges soon proliferated and sent howling mobs of Protestants out to brutalize the Catholics. Eventually, the Irish Catholics started terrorist groups of their...
Northern Ireland's politics will never be the same again. The word out of Armagh jail was that Bernadette Devlin, serving a six-month term for inciting riots, had taken up the peaceful craft of crocheting under the tutelage of a convicted murderess. Furthermore, when a fellow Member of Parliament, Ulster's Ivan Cooper, visited Bernadette, he found her surprisingly subdued. "In her political comments, she's a good deal more tolerant than when she went to prison," Cooper observed, "and her temper is much better than it is normally...
...seriously injured, and an hour and a half later, M.P.s were back on their benches. Before long they resumed, discussion, appropriately, on a point of order concerning the swearing-in of the House's youngest member, Firebrand Bernadette Devlin, 23, now serving a six-month jail sentence in Armagh, Northern Ireland, for rioting and inciting to riot during last summer's disturbances in Ulster. Hansard, the official parliamentary record, took note of the bombing with a single word: "Interruption...
...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...