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...extraordinary invasion signified the onset of Ulster's "marching season," when the war-weary province's Catholics and Protestants celebrate-separately and often violently-past sectarian milestones. This week Protestants will don their orange sashes to parade through Belfast in honor of William of Orange's victory over England's last Catholic monarch, James II, at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Four weeks later, their opponents will parade in doleful memory of "Internment Day," the anniversary of a 1971 British military roundup where hundreds of Catholics were jailed without trials...
...what they do to people. While in the London bureau he covered Northern Ireland. He reports that the mood there, where the population is badly split, is quite different from that in Italy, where only a tiny minority of the people sympathize with the cause of the Red Brigades. Belfast is grim, day or night, but Rome - for those who are not rich or famous - is still a pleasant city by day. The tourist season is already under way. The flowers are blooming, and long lines of cars wind out to the nearby beaches. After dark, however, most...
...hero, Frank (John Lithgow), runs a bicycle shop in Belfast. He is zany about bikes and a bit zany all around. He can dismantle a bike and apostrophize its beauty as if he were disrobing a woman and seducing her. It runs in his blood...
BOMBS EXPLODE IN BELFAST and young children, who know little of the ways of their parents, die. It happens all too often in Northern Ireland, a bleeding sore of a place where a British accent is the law and religion is the best excuse around for killing your friends. Pipe bombs, savage little devils that will indiscriminately swallow up Protestant and Catholic legs, are very popular in Ulster now, but they do not have many friends. Bombs like that maim everyone they meet, and the people who throw them do not apologize. They are not supposed to; they are just...
...Christian writers (including Tolkien and Dorothy Sayers) at Wheaton College in Illinois, a staunchly Evangelical Protestant school. In Curator Clyde S. Kilby's vault are many unpublished Lewis treasures: boyhood writings, diaries and 1,000 of his letters, including lifelong correspondence with Arthur Greeves, a friend from his Belfast youth...