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Article: TERENCE O'NEILL, PRIME MINISTER OF NORTHERN IRELAND DURING '60S
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 15, 1990
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LONDON - Terence O'Neill, a former prime minister of
Northern Ireland who attempted to reconcile Protestants and Roman
Catholics in the 1960s, has died, the government said Wednesday. He
was 75.
Mr. O'Neill, who served as the province's prime minister from
1963 to 1969, died Tuesday at his home in Lymington, Hampshire.
Britain suspended Northern Ireland's parliament in 1972 in
the face of growing sectarian and political violence and instituted
direct rule in 1973.
Mr. O'Neill was named a lord in 1970, and spoke frequently in
Britain's House of Lords on Northern Ireland.
Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey said of Mr. O'Neill: "He
was a good man who meant well and, perhaps, ...