Word: ulsterization
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Everlasting Fame in the Ulster Cycle--by Professor P.K. Ford, Margaret Brooks Robinson Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University. 61 Kirkland St, CLCS Seminar Room...
...been so besieged by terrorism. The I.R.A. opened its latest campaign with a spate of bombings in November that severely damaged parts of the center of Belfast. Since then, more buildings have been bombed, and there has been an upsurge in murders by the I.R.A., as well as by Ulster loyalist extremists. The bombings have spread to London, Manchester and other British cities...
Slowly but perceptibly, some of Northern Ireland's Catholic minority are joining the province's middle class. And that bodes well for the success of new negotiations to decide Ulster's future announced in London last week. The talks culminate 14 months of intricate diplomacy and are slated to begin by the end of April. They will include three separate, interlocking conferences: one will involve Northern Ireland's mainly Protestant unionist political parties, which want to see the province remain part of Britain, and the principally Catholic nationalist parties, which want Ulster to be part of Ireland. Other talks will...
...battled Roman Catholic teaching on contraception, divorce and homosexuality was elected President, a largely ceremonial position. And the Vatican appointed Cahal Daly, a fierce critic of the Irish Republican Army, as Primate of All-Ireland. The Belfast-based bishop's elevation pleased politicians and religious leaders in Ulster and London, where there is hope that his outspoken condemnations of violence might help quell sectarian terrorism...
...weeks ago, a Roman Catholic nun was killed along with three Ulster / policemen in a land mine explosion in County Armagh. Four days earlier a bomb exploded at the London Stock Exchange, causing considerable damage. In June eight people were wounded when a similar device went off in the Carlton Club, a Conservative Party bastion near London's St. James's Palace. In May two Australian lawyers were gunned down in the town square in Roermond, in the Netherlands, apparently mistaken for off-duty British soldiers...