Word: protestantizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THE Protestant counterpart of the I.R.A. is the Ulster Defense Association, a formidably organized group of street-fighting soldiers who wear masks, combat jackets, British army chevrons and shoulder pips. Self-proclaimed saviors of Ulster's "Prods," they carry clubs and boast of having an arsenal of automatic pistols...
The Shankill district is a Protestant Bogside, barricaded and bellicose. Just off the Shankill Road, past a checkpoint of steel pipe driven into the pavement, is the headquarters of C Company, Ulster Defense Association. ¶Company patrols, some riding Land Rovers, mount round-the-clock guard over the area'...
Embarking on what he privately admitted was a "frightening gamble," Whitelaw set up offices in gargoyled Stormont Castle, and held an exhaustive series of meetings with everyone from Unionist politicians to Catholic housewives whose admiration for the I.R.A. was diminishing under the endless violence. Visitors reported that the Scots-born...
Policy of Reconciliation. The Provisionals, who had called for the ceasefire only after hot debate at a secret meeting in the hills just south of the border, might not be able to control their hard-lining Belfast units. On the other side, Northern Ireland's Protestant majority viewed the...
The I.R.A.'s truce offer means that Whitelaw has won valuable time for further political initiatives. As a next move, he would like to convene a meeting on Northern Ireland's future at which all quarreling factions would be represented. The I.R.A.'s cease-fire was obviously...