Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Recently my son asked me if I had heard about the terrorist who had slipped across the border. Suddenly I had to think of which border he was referring to: the Israeli border, the Northern Ireland border or the California border. The violence has gotten too confusing...
...state of total flux. The sorcerer's apprentice started the water flowing, and now we are all going to be swept along with it." Hyperbolic as it sounded, that statement by one leading Ulster Protestant was a grimly accurate assessment of Northern Ireland's current situation. With the collapse of the moderate Protestant-Catholic coalition and the imposition once again of direct rule from London, the future of the province was bleaker than it has been in more than half a century...
...state this week in Irish sectors of London and Manchester, as well as in Dublin. Then his corpse will be buried in County Mayo. Gaughan's death, said Malachy Foots, a spokesman for the Provisional Shin Fein, the I.R.A.'s political wing, "has been seen in Ireland in the same light as if it had been caused by a bullet from a British army rifle...
...moderates like Faulkner. The Protestants, who make up about two-thirds of Ulster's population, were angry at having been maneuvered by London into sharing power with the Catholic minority. They also feared that cooperation in Ulster would eventually lead to union with the predominantly Catholic Republic of Ireland-a political marriage that would instantly turn their majority into a minority...
...Royal Ulster Constabulary to halt the first civil rights march by Roman Catholics through Londonderry. That decision contributed to the five years of violence that soon followed. It also launched "King Billy" Craig, now head of the Vanguard Unionist Party, on an unrelenting war on behalf of Northern Ireland's Protestants. Throughout "the troubles," his line has had a one-track consistency: Ulster, he believes, faces a takeover by the Catholic-dominated Republic of Ireland and this can be prevented only if Ulster's Protestants band together in political and military opposition to union. A soft-spoken lawyer...