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...Dublin, the Irish Republic's Prime Minister John Lynch held an unprecedented meeting with 16 opposition members of the Northern Ireland Parliament and announced his support for the continuing campaign of civil disobedience-rent and tax strikes and one-day shutdowns by shopkeepers in Ulster's predominantly Catholic border towns. The action demonstrated to Lynch's own voters his concern about their Catholic brethren in the north, but it will have little effect on the deadly stalemate in Northern Ireland...
...week's end, Britain's Labor Party leader, Harold Wilson, broadcast an eloquent appeal on behalf of his notion for tripartite talks between Belfast, London and Dublin. "For God's sake forget the past," he pleaded. "Forget William III. Forget about a long-dead Dutchman and remember you're living in the reign of Elizabeth II. Forget about the struggles of 50 years ago. Forget about the Easter Rising...
Heath's icy reply to Jack Lynch hardly seemed designed to encourage the Dublin government to cut off the illegal supply of arms and men that seeps across the 200-mile border between south and north. But it may have served to strengthen Ulster's Prime Minister Faulkner, who has become increasingly vulnerable to the demands of his party's hardliners. As former Home Minister William Craig told TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast: "If Faulkner seems to make any more gestures of compromise, it'll bring the roof right down...
...worst afflictions, however, were the Penal Laws passed by the Parliament in Dublin to ensure the continued supremacy of the Protestant minority. Protestant Wolfe Tone characterized the laws as "that execrable and infamous code, framed with the art and the malice of demons, to plunder and degrade and brutalize the Catholics." Execrable they were. Catholic priests were branded on the cheek with a red-hot iron if they failed to register their names and the names of their parishes. Catholics were excluded from political life and forbidden their own schools. They were not permitted to marry Protestants, acquire land from...
...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 war until independence was finally granted in 1921. Ireland was partitioned into the 26 counties forming the Irish Free State in the south and the six counties that make up Northern Ireland...