Word: protestante
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Some seasons, just being Irish seems curse enough, and never more so than in Northern Ireland's annual marching season, when Protestant pride expresses itself in drum-banging celebration of Catholic defeat. Down the streets of Belfast, through such villages as Drumcree, the brethren of the Orange Order must go...
Was it just for that privilege that Lee Quinn, only 12 years old, found himself last week in the back bedroom of his grandmother's house in Rasharkin, dazedly watching over three small white coffins holding all that remained of his three younger brothers? They burned to death when Protestant...
The marchers knew the Quinn family was in the one-story house they were passing; band members were asked to stop playing when they were directly in front. "There's not too many grieving in this town," said Irene Quinn, the dead boys' grandmother. Those who were grieving could do...
BELFAST, Northern Ireland: Perhaps the habit of violence can be changed after all. With the standoff in Portadown ready to turn into a massive weekend eruption, Protestant would-be marchers and the Catholic residents they would march past were talking Friday -- through intermediaries -- about a compromise. "Northern Ireland has run...
The problem: Where, between marching and not marching, is there any room for compromise? "If I knew that, I'd be the Northern Ireland Secretary," says Hillenbrand. "It's a conflict of two rights: The right to march and the right to have peace and quiet." The key to any...