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Article: Ceasefire: Words
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 4, 1994
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BEFORE Ulster loyalist spokesmen began throwing verbal bricks at
the "pan-nationalists" I must admit that I had not come across this
particular pan- combination. Pan-Buddhists, Pan-Anglo-Saxons and
the Pan- Celtic Movement, yes: Pan American Airways certainly. I
had even heard of the pan-
Satanists, who thought the Prince of Darkness ruled the world.
All these expressions are attached to specifically named groups.
Pan-Slavism wanted a confederation of all Slavonic- speaking
people, Pan-Celtism made common cause with all Celts, and so on.
But the loyalists won't put a name to it: they can't say
"pan-Irish" because they honestly don't believe Ireland has a
common cause.
The ancient Greeks, ...