Word: protestantitis
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The wires hold. Belfast is rich in wire, coiled and barbed, and in corrugated iron. (You could make your fortune in corrugated iron here.) Great sheets of it are slabbed up in front of government buildings and on the "peace line" that separates the Catholic Falls Road from the Protestant...
"O' course, there's one place where the Prods and Taigs [Catholics] are at peace." The cabbie grins and points to the Protestant and Catholic cemeteries that abut each other. "Yet space is tight even there. The Catholics is spillin' over on the bogland. If you bury people in that...
Like Paul, Bernadette seeks no revenge against the other side, not even the army men who ride the Saracens. She points out that they are not much older than herself. She does have Protestant friends, but it's difficult because of the neighborhood she lives in. The Livingstones are residents...
It is the closeness of the lives that makes the war intense for the children, like a terrible, endless family fight, but it also confuses their feelings. Each side is carefully taught to be suspicious of the other, yet there is an unspoken affinity between the two sides as well...
Ruskin was the precocious child of doting parents, as Historian Joan Abse relates in this vigorous, compassionate biography, and his life through middle age was a struggle to free himself from their loving tyranny. "My mother had never let me play cricket lest it should quicken my pulse, step into...