Word: protestantitis
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This time, for what it was worth, the blame for the outburst of violence could be leveled at the Protestant side: the long-feared backlash was a fact at last. For the British army, the renewed violence created a second front, a vicious situation in which its men were being...
Last week Ulster's Protestant extremists called a 24-hour general strike under the auspices of a newly formed organization called the United Loyalist Council. "There is going to be no more pussyfooting," cried the council's chairman, William ("King Billy") Craig, who has a way of turning...
Burying the Dead. In fact, it turned out to be the occasion for some of the most blatant attacks against the Catholic community in the four-year history of the troubles. Protestant gunmen fired indiscriminately on a funeral procession of several hundred Catholics who were following the coffins of three...
Elsewhere in Belfast that same afternoon, a convent and a Catholic school for handicapped children were attacked by mobs hurling stones, bricks and bottles. A Catholic church and parish house were broken into and ransacked, their religious statues smashed. Three Catholic families in Protestant areas were fire-bombed from their...
OPHULS'S PORTRAYAL of the way in which the struggle touches people, particularly the families of people killed, is done with a rare sensitive and emotional touch. We are made to feel strongly the life that might have been, had not the 16 month-old baby been shot in the...