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Article: No Next Step Has Followed Cease-Fire in N. Ireland; Core Dispute Between Protestants and Catholics Remains Far From Resolution
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- The Washington Post
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- September 12, 1994
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The first thing you come to understand on a first visit to
Northern Ireland is that you don't understand.
Where you are, for example, depends on whom you ask. The map
says Northern Ireland, part of the United Kingdom. But a Catholic
will tell you that you are in the north of Ireland, the upper
portion of the independent Republic of Ireland.
A Protestant may say you are in Ulster. Yet another says "the
province." A third will tell you you are in "the six counties,"
referring to Antrim, Down, Armagh, Londonderry, Tyrone and
Fermanagh, the majority Protestant jurisdictions that were broken
away from the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic Republic of Ireland in
1921 by the British, who used to ...