Word: protestantizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With gun ownership rising steadily, the possibility of civil war is not simply an alarmist's dream. As of last April, there were more than 102,000 licensed firearms-everything from farmers' shotguns to automatic weapons-held by some 73,000 Ulstermen, practically all of them Protestant. How...
SO said John Lynch, Prime Minister of the Irish Republic, after two days of emergency talks with British Prime Minister Edward Heath. Held at Chequers, the country residence of Britain's Prime Ministers, the meetings dealt with the current civil strife in the British province of Northern Ireland. The...
In a parallel move, British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling invited representatives of Ulster's Catholic community to a round-table conference with the province's Protestant leaders. The conference's purpose: to consider reforms that would give the Catholics (who constitute about one-third of Ulster'...
In Jeopardy. It was Ulster's Catholics, however, not its Protestants, who placed the British-sponsored round-table talks in jeopardy. Both of the province's two main opposition parties rejected any such meeting until the Protestant-dominated Stormont government rescinds the internment of 250 Catholic militants who...
"Third Force." Not that Ulster's Orangemen were exactly waving the olive branch. Cries mounted last week for an armed "third force"-in addition to the British army and the overwhelmingly Protestant but unarmed Royal Ulster Constabulary-to fight the terrorists of the outlawed Irish Republican Army. One afternoon...