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Dusk had just fallen last Thursday over Newry, a predominantly Catholic town of 19,000 in County Down. More than 20 police officers of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (R.U.C.) were gathered in their station canteen on Cory Square. At precisely 6:32 p.m., mortar shells soared over nearby houses and crashed through the roof of the wood-frame dining hall, part of the cramped Newry station house. Nine 50-lb. shells were fired from a distance of about 250 yds.; one struck the canteen. The explosions were so powerful that many bodies were mutilated. The final toll: nine killed...
...British regalia clutter the place in a display of fierce loyalty. Threats on their lives, their house, their dignity, abound. Father (played by Donal McCann) and son are movingly bound by fear, whispering in their own house. They live on the edge, vulnerable yet resilient, caught up inextricably in Ulster's tangled animosities. "No Protestant git's going to drive me out; y'have to kill me first." The father's defiance is juxtaposed against his despair when his son stumbles into the house, all beaten-up by three locals; "Bastards, bastards all of them...
...certain kind of jolly theatrical performer used to be referred to as "the map of Ireland." For a revised and updated emotional cartography, audiences are advised to stare long and hard into the physiognomy of John Lynch. A young actor of Roman Catholic stock who grew up in Ulster, he plays the title role in Cal, a brooding, subtle film that dares to make the only valid response to the endless violence of life in Northern Ireland today: a sort of strangled horror...
...race in the forthcoming elections, but few believe that. The economy is relatively healthy, the inflation rate only about 10%, and the country's fabled "monsoon politics" are once again running in the Prime Minister's favor. The Sikhs may grumble that their heartland has become "the Ulster of India," but the majority of the electorate appears to be on her side...
While John Hume, head of Ulster's moderate Social Democratic and Labor Party, did his best to mediate, Irish Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald and former Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey disagreed sharply over the options. Not surprisingly, the most formidable opposition to the forum's report was from Ulster's majority Protestants. Led by the militant Rev. Ian Paisley, they have staunchly resisted any link with the predominantly Catholic republic, effectively foredooming the forum. Indeed, Paisley and his supporters traveled to the Irish capital under cover of darkness to demonstrate their contemptuous response to the report...