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Article: Ireland: two states, two nations.
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- World Affairs
- Article date:
- September 22, 1995
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Northern Ireland is a land emotionally frozen in time. For Catholics and Protestants, the calendar reads 1 July 1690, and the Battle of the Boyne is fought anew each day. As a local proverb asserts: "To hell with the future, and long live the past, May God in his mercy look down on Belfast." Why is this conflict, whose origin dates back to the Norman invasion of Ireland in the twelfth century, still raging at the dawn of the twenty-first century? The reason lies in the historic evolution of two separate national identities - Catholic and Protestant - and the present attempt by the former to politically abolish the latter.
To rescue Ireland from the religious decline ...
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