Word: protestantitis
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Deprived Minority. The act strengthened the iron-fisted and arrogant rule of Ulster's Protestant majority. In many ways, Northern Ireland resembled a Southern U.S. state, like Mississippi or Alabama, where a minority?in Ireland's case, of Catholics rather than blacks?was systematically deprived of social and political justice...
The army has always had a phoenixlike ability to rise from the ashes of defeat, and 1968 gave it another lease on life. In that year, Ulster's Catholics, with the support of liberal Protestants, began their civil rights demonstrations for better homes, jobs and an equitable voice in the...
The I.R.A. assault has done more than anything else in 50 years to turn British policy toward finding ways to end the haunting question of Britain's first colony. Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson has suggested a 15-point, 15-year program for unification that has been welcomed in principle...
Stake in the Future. Fear of a Westminster "sellout" now dominates the Protestant community, despite assurances by Faulkner and Heath. MacStiofáin contends that these fears are unjustified: "We have no interest in treating the Protestants harshly. We don't want them to leave the North. We want them to...
Thus unification could well lead to a bloody replay of the present situation, with Protestant guerrillas taking up arms for their liberties. Clearly, their rights would have to be ensured in a united, predominantly Catholic Ireland ?although it is far from clear just how. The Provos, who tend to...