Word: orangeman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Faulkner, who in pugnacious moments looks rather like a bull terrier, made an early reputation in Unionist politics as a right-winger, a staunch Orangeman and a fierce critic of the Roman Catholic Church. He was a strong and capable Home Affairs Minister, in charge of security, at the height of the I.R.A.'s 1956-62 border campaign against Northern Ireland. As Prime Minister, he offered Catholic M.P.s a larger share of parliamentary power, and named the first Catholic minister to a Unionist government in the province's history...
...toast may he be slammed, crammed and jammed into the muzzle of the gun of Athlone and the gun fired into the Pope's belly, and the Pope into the Devil's belly, and the Devil into Hell, and the door locked and the key in an Orangeman's pocket; and may we never lack a brisk Protestant boy to kick the arse of a Papist...