Word: belfast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BELFAST...
...time, yet he can still only get so far into the story?to the point where "Daddy, he ran to the back, to the next house"?before he starts crying. He has a woman's face, still dimpled, along with the absolutely blue eyes of most Belfast children, and brown hair parted carelessly down the middle: the sort of face the old masters sought. His school tie hangs cockeyed; it was knotted in a hurry...
Bobby Sands, Francis Hughes and the others who were willing to die of hunger to protest the conditions in Belfast's Maze Prison...
Left, left, left, right, left." As the column of men approached, a hymn singing crowd of Protestants who had gathered in the main square of the community of Newtownards outside of Belfast grew silent. The militant Protestant leader, the Rev. Ian Paisley, had spoken of the "third force," his shadowy army of vigilantes, and now they appeared out of the night, marching three abreast, in ranks some 5,500 strong. A few strutted with the gait of trained infantrymen. Others stumbled to keep in step. But whether wearing face masks, field jackets or street clothes, all displayed orange armbands inscribed...
Some Unionists feared that Paisley's stridently anti-British stand might provoke a break with London. To preserve harmony in the Protestant cause-a doubtful prospect-Loyalist parties sent representatives to a hastily convened summit in Londonderry. But officials in both Belfast and London suspected that Paisley had other things than Protestant unity in mind. Said one Cabinet minister: "Ian Paisley sees himself as the first President of an independent Ulster...