Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knowing the recent bloody strife between Protestants and Catholics and the centuries-old heritage of hatred, could possibly say that about Northern Ireland? The answer was the Union Party leader and the brand-new Prime Minister, Major James Chichester-Clark, 46, who had won a Unionist Party caucus by one vote from a hard-lining Unionist, Brian Faulkner. Chichester-Clark last month resigned from the Cabinet of the previous Prime Minister, Terence O'Neill, thus helping to force O'Neill's resignation in the face of charges he was soft on Catholicism...
...Prime Minister is almost a parody of the ruling gentry class in Northern Ireland. His seat in the Stormont Parliament is virtually hereditary, having been held in succession by his grandmother and father. Educated at Eton, Chichester-Clark served in the Irish Guards and still carries in his left leg shrapnel fragments from the Anzio landing. He owns a 560-acre estate near Londonderry and enjoys gentlemanly pastimes like riding to hounds...
...promises to provide reporters with choice copy. When a U.S. newsman asked if the recent riots were bad for tourism, Chichester-Clark reportedly replied: "I don't see why they should be. Anyway, why would an American tourist even in the best of times want to visit Northern Ireland...
...night, in the privacy of her 22nd-birthday dinner, she was wistful about the loss of her days of innocence as a student protester in blue jeans and bulky sweater. "I believe standing for this Parliament destroyed something in myself. Then why did I do it? The people in Ireland needed a moral victory...
...reforms, she said, because the party survives on discrimination and "by introducing the human rights bill, it signs its own death warrant." That, of course, is indeed O'Neill's dilemma in dealing with the reactionaries in his own party-and part and parcel of Northern Ireland's once and present agony...