Word: ulsterman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tommy sat across from me on the train going to Belfast from Dublin. He propped his elbows on the table separating us, and explained the situation in Belfast. He grew up in Belfast on the Upper Falls road (any Ulsterman knows that means Tommy is Catholic). And he lifted his right hand and stuck out his index finger to speak of one side, then raised the left and slowly released its index-finger while speaking of the other side. Then he hit the tips of his fingers together hard, so tremors went right down his arms and shook the table...
...body was found in a Surrey ditch; he had been shot twice in the back of the head. Police said it looked like an I.R.A. execution. Before he died, Lennon had taken Melly's advice and gone to the N.C.C.L. For six hours the disheveled, unshaven Ulsterman spilled out an incredible story of how he had been blackmailed into becoming an informer on the I.R.A. for British intelligence. He was clearly afraid for his life, recalled Larry Grant, the council's senior legal officer, and feared not only that the vengeful I.R.A. would hunt him down but that...
...trickiness and Nixon's ability to recover from defeat. Faulkner was twice beaten for the premiership before he finally won it just a year ago; even now, amid the wreckage of the Stormont government, his standing with the Protestant rank and file is high. He is a pure Ulsterman, a Presbyterian, the son of a shirt-factory owner, and he went to college not in England but in County Dublin. "I'm an Irishman," he once proudly said. "With British links. But I'm Irish...
...Ulsterman was born of the Industrial Revolution, the Irishman of the Book of Kelts" one Northern Irish journalist wrote recently. The curious thing about the Ulster Protestant is that he feels neither completely Irish nor completely British. Catholic Ireland, he fears, will submerge his Protestant identity; Britain, he fears, will abandon him. Last week events merely intensified his anxieties. Complained Ulster Politician Joe Burns: "It is typical of the British government to placate their enemies to crucify their friends...
Hard work, frugality and a sharp business sense-all part of the Scottish Presbyterian tradition-are the mark of an Ulsterman. In contrast with the Irish Republic, Ulster in some respects is relatively permissive. Playboy, X-rated films and strip shows are available, as are contraceptive devices. Divorce is legal. Dour religiosity, however, prevails in the Protestant areas of the North. Pubs and cinemas are closed Sundays, and even the children's swings in the parks are padlocked. The Ulsterman, it is said, treats his Sunday properly...