Word: protestantizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week the electorate of Northern Ireland was asked to vote on whether it wanted to remain part of the Unitted Kingdom. The result was inevitable -almost 99% voted yes since Ulster's population is two-thirds Protestant, and since many Catholics had decided to boycott the,British government...
In the year since Britain declared direct rule over Northern Ireland, it has lost 98 of its own troops while trying to contain a spreading violence that has caused more than 300 civilian deaths. At the same time, the Protestant and Catholic communities have grown farther apart than ever, physically...
The first step in the British government's formula for a political solution is a national referendum this week. The question to be voted on: whether the province should retain its links with the United Kingdom or should join the Irish Republic. The result is a foregone conclusion, since...
The British government will doubtless interpret the results as a vindication of its present policies. Almost immediately, it is expected to release its long-promised White Paper defining the future political status of Northern Ireland. The document reportedly will not call for a restoration of Ulster's Protestant-dominated...
But more basic to the current dilemna of Memorial Church is the anomaly of an established Protestant church (with strong Unitarian/Congregational leanings) in a community that has become increasingly otherwise. "I don't know what they believe in," Gomes said of the typical undergraduates at Harvard, "but whatever it is...