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...Unphair to Protestants. One day last April, while Sean worked in his fields, Sheila bundled their two children into the car and drove off. Later, a Belfast barrister turned up at Dungulph Castle with Sheila's terms for coming back: Cloney must sell the farm, move to Canada or Australia, agree to let the children be raised as Protestants. Cloney got a conditional order for a writ of habeas corpus for his children's return, and waited...
Within a few weeks a fine Irish uproar was under way. Church of Ireland Bishop John Percy Phair journeyed from Kilkenny to Fethard to comfort the Protestant flock of 25 and advised them to meet their Catholic boycotters with "smiling faces" ("Fethard unphair to Protestants" punned the press). Letters flooded the newspapers with suggestions, e.g., all Ireland's Protestants should buy from Leslie Gardner's hardware shop and Betty Cooper's news agency-grocery in Fethard. Northern Ireland Unionists urged the government to start a fund for the boycotted Protestants, and a group of Belfast aircraft workers...
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