Word: protestantized
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More killing seemed inevitable. The militantly Protestant Ulster Defense Association, which only two months ago pledged that it would do "all in its power" to prevent back-street murders, announced at midweek that it could no longer control Protestant extremists. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army, in an...
The renewed sequence of assassinations came as a shock to Ulstermen; since Christmas, the atmosphere in Belfast had been almost benign. British patrols had seemingly pacified the East Belfast area that had been the scene of many "sectarian" killings-the term routinely used in Ulster to describe cases where victims...
Such realities include a Protestant majority in the North unwilling to accept citizenship in a united Ireland dominated by a large Catholic majority. To force them all into a single state, O'Brien argues, would be an act of imperialism equivalent to the one committed by Britain when she...
Many basic civil rights have long been denied Catholics in Northern Ireland and until a few years ago a Protestant paramilitary force, the B Specials, policed the Catholic ghetto there. The Catholic South, on the other hand, has for years maintained one of the most repressive censorships in Western Europe...
One wonders whether a common mistrust of Britain might not eventually unite Ulstermen. In fact, there is already more contact between Protestant and Catholic politicians, even the extremists, than meets the eye. Among those advocating joint exploration of a "negotiated" independence from Britain is John Taylor, onetime Home Minister in...