Word: protestantitis
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The Twelfth parade has always been a sensitive flashpoint, especially in the sections of town where it passes by the Catholic community--like Unity Flat, at the entrance to the Protestant stronghold of Shankhill road. This year these sections were blocked off with large canvas screens. There were some stone...
The speeches at "The Field" this year all centered around Loyalty. Loyalty is a concept of much debate among the Unionists (those seeking to perpetuate union with the United Kingdom) since Enoch Powell, the Official Unionist M.P. from South Down said the week before that a proper Loyalist should be...
The Orange Institution in Northern Ireland is like the Elks in America; they espouse arcane political theory at social functions, but mainly they serve as bastions of sectarianism and Protestant ascendancy.
But when I talked in depth with Protestants not in the Orange Order, I found out that the Lodges were to some degree a manifestation of a much larger current of subtle Protestant sectarianism.
In Northern Ireland, where killing has become almost matter-of-fact, the bloodshed, meanwhile, continued to mount, taking the lives of 20 people in only one week. In six years of fighting, 1,308 have been killed in Northern Ireland. The most outrageous incident occurred in south Armagh. While elderly...