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With gun ownership rising steadily, the possibility of civil war is not simply an alarmist's dream. As of last April, there were more than 102,000 licensed firearms-everything from farmers' shotguns to automatic weapons-held by some 73,000 Ulstermen, practically all of them Protestant. How many additional smuggled weapons are being held illegally by both sides is anybody's guess. An immediate ban on all privately held firearms in Ulster is one of the twelve points advocated by British Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson. The Labor opposition in Westminster has also been demanding that...
Powerful words, but probably a vain hope. Ulstermen were as preoccupied as ever with their ancient grievances as they waited to see what Brian Faulkner would do next to break the impasse. The answer will come next week if not before. By Sept. 8 he is required by law to decide how many of the 240 internees presently held on 28-day detention orders should remain in custody indefinitely...
...Ulstermen could also be grateful that the peak of violence passed without an immediate widening of the conflict. The government had not declared a general curfew or a state of martial law; a widespread Protestant backlash against Catholic militancy had not appeared; and members of the illegal Irish Republican Army (the I.R.A.) had not resorted to mass terrorism. Nonetheless, the outburst marked a reversion to outright religious warfare. From Protestant and Catholic alike comes the warning in that pungent northern twang: "There's going to be a bloodbayeth, I'm afrayud...
...Mentality. To foreigners who have never known the Northern Irish or seen the drab, mean slums of their cities, it seems all but incomprehensible that a corner of Great Britain, that most gentle and civilized of lands, should be beset in this day and age by a holy war. Ulstermen themselves have often argued that the real issue is not religion but a complex combination of economics (an entrenched Protestant majority preserving its job preferences over a poorer Catholic minority) and political allegiance (to the British Crown or to a reunited Ireland). But as Irish Scholar Conor Cruise...
...early 20th century, widespread terrorism made it evident to Britain that Ireland was, in the long run, uncontrollable from London. Home rule seemed imminent. The Protestants in Ulster feared for their future in a largely Catholic Ireland. Invoking slogans like "Home Rule Is Rome Rule," the Protestant Ulstermen drafted their own constitution, and pledged to fight the British for the right to remain British. Home rule for Ireland was shelved with the advent of World War I and the "Easter Rising" in Dublin in 1916. But the Irish Republican Army had been created, and it fought a bloody guerrilla...