Word: protestantism
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Likewise, there are no fewer than eight single issue political parties distinguished from one another solely by where each stands on the question of whether Northern Ireland should remain a part of Protestant Great Britain or become a part of the Catholic Republic of Ireland.
The same goes for schools (Catholics and Protestants by and large go to segregated schools), pubs (also largely segregated) and neighborhoods (where to be a Catholic living in a Protestant area can put you in actual physical danger). The segregated Old American South, simply put, has nothing on present-day...
Trimble will now have to consult with his constituents over whether to accept the British plan or lead the parties who want Northern Ireland to remain part of Britain on a path of confrontation with London. The first test of the loyalist mood will come Sunday, when British troops will...
Blair and Ahern?s efforts to cajole the two sides into accepting a compromise formula will receive plenty of impetus from beyond the gates of Stormont Castle, where the talks are being held. Loyalist Protestant militants from all over Northern Ireland announced Tuesday that, following the British ban on Sunday...
The gesture being demanded of the IRA ?- a small-scale decommissioning of arms ?- is essentially symbolic, but that symbolism cuts to the core of the historic confrontation between loyalists who want the province to remain part of Britain and nationalists who believe they?re fighting an anti-colonial war. If...