Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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At Andersonstown Road, in the heart of a Catholic section, the cortege stopped, and the coffin was removed from the hearse. Three more I.R.A. men suddenly appeared with rifles and fired into the air the traditional three volleys of honor and mourning. The procession, discreetly shepherded by police and British...
The other force that also held itself in check in Northern Ireland was the province's Protestant majority ("the sleeping monster," as one senior British army officer called it) that outnumbers Catholics 2 to 1. On the day of Sands' funeral, Protestant Leader Ian Paisley held another memorial...
We disagree completely with the majority's belief that somehow the actions of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) can help achieve these goals. Extremists who perpetuate violence--like members of the IRA and unyielding Protestants such as the Rev. Ian Paisley--only make it harder to arrive at a solution...
There are many who view these soldiers in the Irish Republican Army (IRA) as "terrorists," slaughtering the innocent for bizarre religious reasons. But the cause these men fight for is not Catholicism; it is the unification of Ireland under Irish rule. We endorse that goal, for the same reason that...
And yet for generations of immigrants, work was ultimately availing; the numb toil of an illiterate grandfather got the father a foothold and a high school education, and the son wound up in college or even law school. A woman who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire in lower...