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Article: A nice place to visit.... (Northern Ireland terrorism)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- March 16, 1992
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NORTHERN Ireland is an excellent place to go on holiday. The people are some of the staunchest and most civil in the world. Much of the coastline is miraculously beautiful. Above all, there aren't many tourists.
Except potilical tourists, who put the others off by sending home tales of barbarism. The political sector of the industry has flourished since the late Sixties, when the present troubles broke out. It declined in the first half of the Eighties (when the number of deaths from terrorism fell to a quarter of the level of a decade before), but has since revived.
Special events are arranged for political tourists. On the night I arrived in ...