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...writing about the Anglo-Irish Agreement and its effect on Northern Ireland ((LETTERS, May 11)), Ian Paisley Jr. says the agreement "endangers the civil rights of citizens . . . of the United Kingdom ((in)) Northern Ireland." He maintains that democracy there "has ceased to exist." Paisley is wrong on both points. The agreement declares that Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic will never be reunified without Protestant consent. As for democracy, the Anglo-Irish Agreement was specifically designed to foster democracy by granting rights to the large Roman Catholic minority, which until then was powerless and had consistently been denied its rights...
Paisley discusses only one side of the Northern Ireland situation. He contends that "democracy has ceased to exist since the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985." The sad truth is that democracy has never existed in the province of Ulster. The Stormont government, prorogued in 1972, was the embodiment of a majority dictatorship, and as such officially tolerated and promoted various forms of discrimination, social and institutional, against the minority population. Gerrymandering, housing and job discrimination, police brutality and an incredibly repressive state-security apparatus were all consistent manifestations of the "democracy" whose passing Paisley laments. Perhaps he should follow...
...governing Tories hurdled the final obstacle to an early poll last week with an unexpectedly strong showing in elections for local councils. Some 27% of Britain's registered voters, or about 12 million people, cast ballots to fill 12,280 seats throughout Britain -- except in London, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Political pros called the bellwether vote the "world's biggest public opinion poll." The returns seemed to remove any doubt that Thatcher was poised to hit the hustings...
Killed in the gun battle were all eight I.R.A. terrorists, along with a 38- year-old man caught in the cross fire. It was the most serious setback for the I.R.A. in 18 years of sectarian violence in Ulster. Said Tom King, London's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland: "We are determined to ensure that terrorism does...
LIKE AMERICA, AUSTRALIA IS A melting-pot nation, populated by immigrants from various countries--including Ireland. It is not entirely surprising, then, that some Australian cultural forms greatly resemble those of the Irish. One example of such cultural emulation is All Fools Day by one of Australia's most popular underground bands, the Saints. Although the Saints hail from down under, their latest musical effort would rather roam the green hills of a certain Northern land--preferably by the side of Van Morrison, Ireland's greatest singer...