Word: ulstermen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lynch has denounced the terrorism of the Proves. In accepting victory last week, he assured the nation -and Ulstermen as well-that "there will be no problem whatever in relating to Northern Ireland." He promised "understanding" with the North...
...would); and second, strong diplomatic pressure from the European Economic Community countries, with large Catholic populations, to stay in Northern Ireland and protect the Catholic minority from any possible repression or massacre. Whitehall might have to bow to these pressures even in the event that a majority of Ulstermen vote for independence from Britain--a decision that the British government has said it would respect...
Reliving the past, often its worst chapters, seems to be a specialty of Northern Ireland. Six years ago this month, a company of British soldiers was rushed into Londonderry to put down bloody riots that raged out of control after Protestant Ulstermen had staged their traditional Apprentice Boys of Deny Parade; the occasion commemorates a group of young apprentices who, on Aug. 12, 1689, closed the city gates and prevented Londonderry's fall to the troops of the exiled Catholic King James II. During the 1969 march, taunts were traded with Catholics from the Bogside area that adjoins...
Elusive Normalcy. Returning to London to deliver his first major speech in the Commons, Rees announced a deceptively moderate program that did indeed emphasize a political solution. He outlined the government's determination to continue transferring responsibility for the security of the province to the Ulstermen themselves. In a dramatic gesture aimed at restoring an elusive normalcy, he announced the legalization of both the Provisional Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.'s political wing, and the only proscribed Protestant group, the Ulster Volunteer Force. Rees also said that there would still be a "phased program" of release for 584 detainees...
...only thing they haven't done yet is eat the dead." So said a Belfast policeman last week, shortly before Ulstermen went to the polls in Northern Ireland to choose members of a provincial Assembly for the first time in four years. The voters were vividly reminded that sectarian enmity forces them to live in an armed camp. In expectation of an outbreak of terrorism, all leaves for policemen were canceled...