Religious Divisions in Northern Ireland

Archive Report

Growing Tensions in Troubled Ulster

Recurrence of Catholic-Protestant Disorders

The uneasy truce that has held back full-scale violence in Northern Ireland since the 1969 riots looks more fragile with each passing day. A smoldering resentment on both sides, Protestant and Catholic, threatens to flare anew into civil strife. The Ulster government, caught in the middle, is groping for a formula that will satisfy Catholic demands for civil rights and yet somehow be acceptable to the Protestant majority. Many of the reforms that were passed last fall by the Ulster Parliament, at London's insistence, have not yet been implemented—sometimes for lack of money and sometimes because of Protestant intransigence.

“The things that have gone right in Ulster this winter are not…impressive,” the Economist of London commented on Feb. ...

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