Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...begin by stating flat-out that Belfast is not a war-torn, urban wasteland. There are bistros and McDonalds, university students and yuppies, beautiful buildings and historic landmarks. One can hear British, Irish, Australian, French, German and American accents just by wandering down University Road any Friday evening. And since the entire city sits surrounded by a ring of hills, on misty days it is magical to look out over the horizon to see these amazingly green hills fading...
...British prime minister Tony Blair is bashing heads together in a desperate bid to save the Northern Ireland peace process. Republicans and loyalists meeting with Blair and Republic of Ireland prime minister Bertie Ahern Wednesday in Belfast have until midnight to find their way around an impasse over disarmament. If they fail, so does last year?s Good Friday Agreement, to which both sides in the decades-old conflict signed on. That might bring President Clinton back in on the peace process. Last year the President invited both parties for talks at the White House to prod them into...
...Blair and Ahern?s efforts to cajole the two sides into accepting a compromise formula will receive plenty of impetus from beyond the gates of Stormont Castle, where the talks are being held. Loyalist Protestant militants from all over Northern Ireland announced Tuesday that, following the British ban on Sunday?s planned march through a Catholic neighborhood in Drumcree, they plan to converge, come what may, on July 12 in Portadown, site of numerous previous clashes with the local Catholic community. So Blair?s strong suit at the talks may well be the now-familiar "alternative too ghastly to contemplate...
Giving up its symbols is just about the hardest thing for a nationalist movement to do, and the quintessential symbol of Irish republicanism is the assault rifle. That is at the heart of the tricky situation facing British and Irish leaders, who, with a Wednesday deadline looming, on Tuesday entered a second day of make-or-break crisis talks on Northern Ireland?s future. "We?ve got to know that the gun will be taken out of Northern Irish politics," said Britain?s Prime Minister Tony Blair. "People will neither understand nor forgive if we don?t make this thing...
...political track and foster a basis for coexistence between the republican Catholic and loyalist Protestant communities, then the breakdown over weapons signals the scale of that challenge. All that, of course, is in the long term. Loyalist groups have announced they will defy Monday night?s ban by the British authorities of next Sunday?s annual loyalist march through the Catholic neighborhood of Drumcree, which usually provokes outbreaks of communal violence. Drumcree may yet prove a brutal reminder to Northern Ireland?s politicians of why they needed a peace process in the first place...