Word: protestantized
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No sooner was the Rev. Ian Paisley elected to Northern Ireland's Parliament as the spokesman of Ulster's right-wing Protestants than he turned his victory speech last spring into an attack on the head of the Protestant government. Said Paisley of moderate Unionist Prime Minister James...
Under the guise of law-and-order, Paisley and the Protestant extremists demanded tighter controls on Ulster's Catholic minority. They wanted the weapons returned that Chichester-Clark's government had taken away from the dreaded "B Special" auxiliary police when British troops moved in. They also demanded...
The Protestant majority must now form its third government in two years. Chichester-Clark's successor faces a dicey assignment: not only is Northern Ireland wrapped in its worst crisis in the 50 years since partition, but no one appears to know how to end it. Speaking in Parliament...
Urban violence is easily measured in terms of those killed or wounded. But what of the impact of such disruptions on the psyche? Two Belfast psychiatrists, themselves caught in the swirl of the city's Catholic-Protestant riots during 1969, wondered how the mental health of those living near...
They are a mixed bag, but a growing one. Conservative Roman Catholics teamed up with a sizable number of liberals. Also included: the Salvation Army and the Mormons, Greek Orthodoxy and Orthodox Jewry, hard-shell fundamentalists and a hard-nosed minority of liberal Protestant ethicists. They are only beginning to...