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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...
...parliamentary government autonomous in domestic affairs, but impotent in foreign affairs, and it would have its capital at Dublin. Only two factions in Ireland were really opposed to this idea; the extremists who wanted an independent Irish Republic, and the protestant politicians in six northeastern counties-Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Derry, and Tyrone...
...come to expect cardinal-archbishops as a matter of course-Milan's Giovanni Colombo, for example, and Florence's Ermenegildo Florit. As Archbishop of Westminster, England's primatial Catholic see, John Carmel Heenan had a right to expect a cardinalate; so did Archbishop William Conway of Armagh, the Primate of All Ireland. It was also predictable that Paul would offer a sign of the church's esteem to Archbishop Enrico Dante, 80, the lean, gesticulating papal master of ceremonies, who has nudged and poked Bishops of Rome through the intricacies of pontifical rituals for 50 years...
Died. John Cardinal D'Alton, So, Archbishop of Armagh and Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland, a noted ancient historian (Horace and His Age), and spiritual father to 3,284,331 Irishmen, who long worked quietly for political union between the Irish Republic and the six British counties of Northern Ireland, was instrumental in ending the I.R.A.-inspired bloodshed between his countrymen on the divided island; of a heart attack; in Dublin...
...Four of the six counties in Northern Ireland (Antrim, Armagh, Londonderry and Down) have Protestant majorities, but in the two west-border counties of Fermanagh and Tyrone, Catholics form about 55% of the population...