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...conducted numerous seminars at the center on the situation in Ulster, conferred with government leaders in Washington and made public appearances up and down the East coast. And the day after he landed in Ulster, Hume and a political colleague, Paddy Devlin, convened the Social Democrats' annual conference in Belfast...
...Protestant Unionist Party monolith--finally gave rise to the Catholic civil rights movement. Hume emerged quickly as a leading spokesman for this non-violent movement. In the first days of January, 1969, the world looked on in horror as a four day-long civil rights march from Belfast to Derry met a massive Protestant attack that left many of the marchers wounded. As the marchers crossed Burntollet Bridge outside Derry, the Protestant mob attacked with everything from brass knuckles to spiked clubs, throwing injured marchers into the river below while police looked on. On August 12, the Apprentice Boys...
Even the Nobel Peace Prize is not a high enough award for Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan of Belfast...
Last week in Turf Lodge, a Catholic ghetto of Belfast that is also a bastion of the Irish Republican Army, the women's peace movement suffered its first serious setback. Arriving to address a meeting in protest against the killing of a 13-year-old neighborhood boy by a British soldier's plastic bullet, Williams and Corrigan were shouted down, pummeled by an angry mob and driven to seek sanctuary in a nearby church. While the terrified women were comforted by a priest in the Holy Trinity sacristy, youths smashed their cars...
...give Williams and Corrigan a "people's peace prize" (the official Nobel committee decided last week not to award the peace prize this year). Said Williams: "The money would make one of my dreams come true. I would like to see a massive recreation center in Belfast. I feel our children have lost the art of playing, and I would love to give it back to them...