Word: protestantizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The debate also brought a respectful hearing for the Rev. Ian Paisley, who advocates full integration of Northern Ireland with Britain. Said Ulster's best-known Protestant preacher: "If we are realists, we will admit that it is easier to change half a million people than it is to...
Following Whitelaw to Ulster were 600 more British troops, bringing the total number there to 15,000 men. They were sent to keep the peace during Ulster's traditional season of marching, which began last weekend with the Catholic commemoration of Dublin's 1916 Easter Rising, and ends...
Brian Faulkner is Northern Ireland's shrewdest politician. The Rev. Ian Paisley is its most charismatic figure. William Craig may prove to be its most dangerous man. Whether Britain can peacefully rule the province, reports TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast, depends largely on the responses of these three contenders for...
> Faulkner, 51, "a clever wee man," as even his Catholic enemies concede, is the Richard Nixon of Northern Ireland politics: he has both Nixon's reputation for trickiness and Nixon's ability to recover from defeat. Faulkner was twice beaten for the premiership before he finally won it...
His style was always that of a political juggler, matching small gestures to moderate Catholic opinion with major concessions to Protestant hardliners. He introduced internment last August over the misgivings of the Conservative government in London. Within seven months, that blunder forced Britain to step in and take over Ulster...