Less than three weeks after unionist and republican leaders in Northern Ireland reached a power-sharing deal, a large car-bomb exploded outside a courthouse in the town of Newry. No one was injured.
the federal government replaced the powerfully pro-settler Sir Godfrey Huggins with the even tougher and more determined ex-trade unionist.
And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
As a former trade unionist, he would be more sensitive to the demands of the people.
Peter Robinson, Northern Ireland's unionist first minister and a hardline Protestant, broke with tradition by attending the funeral mass.
Mr Paisley, who leads the DUP, the largest unionist party, is an 80-year-old Protestant cleric who has spent his life denouncing the very idea of a rapprochement with republican leaders like Mr Adams.
The protests are less political than cultural-they reflect a sense among poor Belfast Protestants that Catholics are getting everything they want and that unionist heritage is being erased.
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