Word: farringdon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the most tragic symbol of the violence was a huge fire in Belfast's Farringdon Gardens, a "mixed" area where Protestants had lived peacefully beside Catholics for a generation. As fears rose, extremists set some 200 houses ablaze: many were Protestants destroying their own homes before fleeing to safer districts. "We're getting out," said one, "but no Catholic will get these houses." A Catholic resident lamented, "In winter we used to shovel snow off each other's paths; now everybody is cutting each other's throat...
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