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...carried a gun in one hand and a lily in the other-the realist and the romantic." In Northern Ireland last week, the most militant members of the outlawed I.R.A. were carrying neither bread nor lilies, but only guns. Worse, they were using small children in their battles. As Belfast erupted in its worst violence since the 1969 riots between the Protestant majority and the Catholic minority, as many as 40 children were arrested -some under twelve years...
...Northern Ireland, where fighting between the Protestant majority and Catholic minority has raged sporadically since the bloody outbursts in the summer of 1969, the slightest incident can cause a renewal of hostilities. In Belfast last week, when British troops searched Catholic homes for arms caches, a group of Catholics attacked them with stones and bottles, and the battle was on. Using homemade bombs and grenades, mobs burned a bus (lower right) and blew up a water main. By the end of the week, at least four persons were dead, including one British soldier-the first to die since the tommies...
...shoppers hurried home at dusk, they were startled to see two young men, aged 18 and 19, being marched through Belfast's Falls Road slum, heavily populated by Catholics. A group of angry members of the I.R.A. (the outlawed Irish Republican Army) tied the two boys to a lamppost and poured cold tar varnish and feathers over their shaved heads. Placards tied around the victims' necks proclaimed; "This man has been found guilty and confessed to breaking and entering. This sentence has been passed by the Republican movement...
...justice as the "official" I.R.A., the "provisionals" last week dragged a 20-year-old man from a pub, allegedly for pushing drugs, then tarred and feathered him and chained him to a park fence. They also accused an English ex-soldier of "interfering with women" and tarred him outside Belfast...
...Highlands Since Time Immemorial, by Joanna Ostrow. The story of a Belfast boy in the remote Scottish highlands makes an exotic, lyrical first novel...