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...must confess that Northern Ireland was one of those places I never read about until I met a fey, green-eyed lady from Belfast atacocktail party in New York City. We spoke only briefly amidst a throng of minglers and I asked why she had come to the United States. In reply, she dug around in her purse, and proudly produced a small box. Mystified, I held out my hand and she placed a heavy gold medal in it. Upon closer inspection I realized I was holding a Nobel Peace Prize, and the the lady I was speaking with...
...eyes, but no hysteria, in the crowd that is almost entirely white and middle class. The people are quiet and reverent. "He's a legend and we just want to be part of it," explains George Lecky, 31, a truck driver who has come from Belfast, Northern Ireland, to spend more than a week in Memphis. He has brought with him his girl friend, his daughter and a nephew; all four wear matching Elvis T shirts...
...between Ulster's Catholics and the Protestant majority-with British army regulars caught between-has left 1,837 dead, thousands disabled, and an uncountable number seared with fury against their neighbors. (Among the most recent fatalities: two Ulster constables, a reserve member of that force, and a young Belfast Catholic.) TIME London Bureau Chief Bonnie Angelo reports on Ulster today, and how its people have learned to cope with terror, and even to hope that it may some...
...gate to the Protestant cemetery on Catholic Falls Road in Belfast, Canon Pádraig Murphy, a towering Roman Catholic priest, and the Rev. Terence Rodgers, Rector of the Protestant Church of Ireland, greet families who have come to visit their dead. It is "Friendship Sunday"-one of four during the year when Protestants can be guaranteed safe conduct into this Catholic stronghold. The two men find discernible improvement in attitudes in Belfast, while reluctantly acknowledging that a new outbreak of violence has left nine dead in the preceding ten days. "A lot of it isn't political...
...clergymen are fearful that Belfast is being unfairly portrayed around the world. But a first impression of the city is upsetting. Streetside windows are bricked against bombs. Barricades seal off free movement: the downtown shopping area is accessible only at stringently guarded checkpoints. British soldiers patrol the streets, 13,800 of them for six counties with 1.5 million people. And there is the fence, a political statement of corrugated metal that jaggedly separates Protestant and Catholic neighborhoods...