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Article: Northern Ireland: Violent images plague land of rare natural beauty
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 24, 1988
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DOWNPATRICK, Northern Ireland The amazingly green grazing land is
divided tidily into irregularly shaped fields by walls of stone,
whose colors match those of the roving clouds from which fitful
showers fall.
Punctuating the gentle grays and shocking greens of the rural
landscape are cheerful spots of yellow: brilliant bristly gorse, wild
iris and shafts of sunlight that illuminate clifftop ruins against a
dark sea.
The story of this Northern Ireland, a land of rare loveliness,
seems not to get a hearing in the news media. It hardly seems
possible to reconcile the quiet natural beauty of Northern Ireland
with the visions of violence projected by television and newspapers.
Yet, for ...