Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The week began on a note of wistful hope. Northern Ireland's 78-member Constitutional Convention was scheduled to resume formal talks at Belfast's Stormont Parliament building after a summer of private discussions. To optimistic observers, it appeared that Ulster's Protestant and Roman Catholic politicians...
The hope proved hollow. Before the convention delegates could reassemble, the three principal parties of the Protestant United Ulster Unionist Coalition caucused at Stormont. Among the subjects discussed was the convention's mandate: that some formula be found for power sharing acceptable both to Ulster's 1 million...
The Orange Institution in Northern Ireland is like the Elks in America; they espouse arcane political theory at social functions, but mainly they serve as bastions of sectarianism and Protestant ascendancy.
But when I talked in depth with Protestants not in the Orange Order, I found out that the Lodges were to some degree a manifestation of a much larger current of subtle Protestant sectarianism.
In Northern Ireland, where killing has become almost matter-of-fact, the bloodshed, meanwhile, continued to mount, taking the lives of 20 people in only one week. In six years of fighting, 1,308 have been killed in Northern Ireland. The most outrageous incident occurred in south Armagh. While elderly...