Word: protestantized
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Yet the citizens of that embattled and bloody anachronism-known to its Protestant majority as Ulster and to its Catholic minority as "the Six Counties" -could thank their separate but equal gods that the toll had been no greater than it was.
Ulstermen could also be grateful that the peak of violence passed without an immediate widening of the conflict. The government had not declared a general curfew or a state of martial law; a widespread Protestant backlash against Catholic militancy had not appeared; and members of the illegal Irish Republican Army...
Siege Mentality. To foreigners who have never known the Northern Irish or seen the drab, mean slums of their cities, it seems all but incomprehensible that a corner of Great Britain, that most gentle and civilized of lands, should be beset in this day and age by a holy war...
Basically, the tragedy of Northern Ireland is rooted in the 17th century and not the 20th. Protestant Orangemen still commemorate the victory of the Protestant William of Orange in 1690 in the Battle of the Boyne; in Londonderry the annual Apprentice Boys parade memorializes the young apprentices who closed the...
The present chapter of Ulster's troubled history stems from the rise of a predominantly Catholic civil rights movement in the late 1960s. Slowly, grudgingly, the province's perpetually Protestant and conservative Unionist Party government made concessions to the long-neglected Catholics. Property qualifications for local elections were...