Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Inside their turreted, Norman-style abbey in Ulster's County Armagh one evening last week, Sir Norman Stronge, 86, and his son James, 48, had just retired to the library after dinner. The baronet, once speaker of the Northern Ireland Parliament and a former head of the Black Order...
It was a close call. Last week one of the seven strikers, Sean McKenna, 26, sentenced to 25 years for terrorist offenses including the attempted murders of a policeman and a Protestant civilian, was reported to be going blind from lack of food. He was described as comatose and close...
Joni (pronounced Johnny) Eareckson doesn't surfer the kind of deformity that causes people to point or stare. With her pretty girl-next-door looks, radiant smile, and pert, no-nonsense personality, she is a popular speaker on the Evangelical Protestant celebrity circuit and to nonreligious groups. As she...
The test of wills between the prisoners and British authorities has driven another wedge of bitterness between Ulster's Protestant and Catholic communities. Most ominously, the Ulster Defense Association, a paramilitary Protestant organization, has threatened to "eliminate" activists supporting the prisoners. Last week, in what Scotland Yard conceded might...
The hunger strikers' principal demand is for restoration of the "special category status" that prisoners convicted of politically motivated crimes were granted by the Tory government of Edward Heath in 1972. At that time, several hunger strikers, who also came close to death, persuaded William Whitelaw, then Secretary of...