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Pretty Maura Lyons was 15 years old and a member of Northern Ireland's Roman Catholic minority (34.2%) when she went to work a year ago as a stitcher in a Belfast garment factory. There she met several members of a splinter sect known as the Free Presbyterian Church, and soon she became a Protestant. Her father, a shipyard worker, and her mother were horrified; so was the parish priest. There were family conferences, prayers and tears. Then Maura Lyons disappeared...
...away. Free Presbyterian Leathern denied any knowledge of the girl's whereabouts, and so did Alan Paisley, moderator of the church. But Paisley eventually produced what he said was a tape recording of Maura's voice, and played it to an audience consisting of all of Belfast's 1,000 Free Presbyterians, Maura's family and the police. "My Roman Catholic religion had been fear and dread," said the voice. "The new religion to which I was introduced was simple and free from fear." Three priests had been called in, and she was about...
Appointed in the Economics Department, John Johnston specializes in the application of statistical methods. He graduated from Queen's University, Belfast, in 1947 with a Gold Medallion in Economic Theory...
...LONELY PASSION OF JUDITH HEARNE, by Brian Moore. The painfully etched life of an old maid as she moves from helplessness to hopelessness in Belfast, Ireland. Dreary and appalling, but so bitterly true that Novelist Moore achieves a small mas terpiece of human defeat...
...Shaw." They argued bitterly over it by mail. "You are the most unreasonable woman I ever knew . . ." wrote Shaw. "You think you are a better Catholic than I, but my view of the Bible is the view of the Fathers of the Church; and yours is that of a Belfast Protestant to whom the Bible is a fetish . . . But you must go on praying for me, however surprising the results...