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...hand, I'm an outsider, an innocent abroad, so I'm somewhat removed from the deep-seated resentment between Catholics and Protestants that drives so much of the politics in Northern Ireland. On the other hand, I'm surrounded at the consulate by people who have spent years studying the politics here, so I can talk to them and get even the thorniest of questions answered. In a very real sense, I get the best of both worlds...
Likewise, there are no fewer than eight single issue political parties distinguished from one another solely by where each stands on the question of whether Northern Ireland should remain a part of Protestant Great Britain or become a part of the Catholic Republic of Ireland...
...found no war-torn urban wasteland here, no sir. Just a really interesting place to spend my summer vacation. John F. Coyle '01, a Crimson editor, is a history and literature concentrator in Pforzheimer House. He is spending the summer working for the U.S. State Department in Northern Ireland...
Talk about bashing heads together. Northern Ireland's politicians failed to make a peace deal, so Britain plans to force them into one -- even as the province braces itself for some ugly fireworks on July 4. After marathon talks failed to yield a breakthrough two days after passing their deadline, British prime minister Tony Blair announced Friday that his government would simply implement the next stage of the peace process without waiting for republicans and loyalists to agree on the handover of IRA weapons. Loyalist politicians had sought to delay the creation of the Northern Ireland Assembly's executive, which...
...Trimble will now have to consult with his constituents over whether to accept the British plan or lead the parties who want Northern Ireland to remain part of Britain on a path of confrontation with London. The first test of the loyalist mood will come Sunday, when British troops will enforce a ban on a march by Protestant militants through a Catholic neighborhood in Drumcree. The spectacle of miles of razor wire and a field flooded to create a moat between Protestant marchers -- ostensibly commemorating the Battle of the Somme -- and some 1,000 troops and police protecting the Catholic...