Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A growing and ominous polarization in Northern Ireland was reflected in last week's local elections. The Rev. Ian Paisley's hard-line Democratic Unionist Party doubled its seats with a show of Protestant militancy, making Paisley Ulster's dominant politician, and candidates backing the I.R.A. hunger...
As an Englishman, I say both the I.R.A. and the extreme Protestant factions are murderers and must be treated as such. If only Bobby Sands had struck for truce talks or had suggested a workable solution, he would have been a real hero. Northern Ireland does not need a Bobby...
What will John Paul's lasting influence be? He hopes to create a strong, unified, revitalized, conservative church, and that would be a remarkable achievement. But it is by no means clear that even a personality as powerful as John Paul's can work such a miracle. Last...
Back in St. Peter's Square, pandemonium reigned. As the Pope collapsed, two women who had been standing near his car also fell, hit by bullets intended for John Paul. They were rushed to Holy Spirit Hospital. Both were Americans. Rose Hall, 21, originally from Shirley, Mass., and now...
Still to be determined is the full effect of Sands' death on Northern Ireland's Catholics, although it has clearly been huge, to judge by the funeral turnout. Says one expert on Northern Irish politics: "Never since 1969 has the Catholic community been so anti-British." Says a...