Summary
Research for a forthcoming book by the academics Peter Shirlow and Brendan Murtagh shows the strength of the fear of "others" in the two communities. Territorial markings such as painted kerbstones and graffiti screaming "Kill All Taigs" (Catholics) or "Kill All Huns" (Protestants) act as frontiers, at once intimidating outsiders and keeping insiders in line.
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Apartheid
One day recently in south Belfast a Catholic priest told a room full of Protestants that they were "like the Nazis". At about the same time in north Belfast a group of loyalists picketing a service at a cemetery threatened Catholic mourners that they would "dig up your graves". Sectarianism, the force that fuelled more than three decades of bloodshed in Northern Ireland, hasn't vanished with the coming of peace.
The world greeted the end of the Troubles with relief, thinking that at last the people of this difficult place could learn to live together, and so slowly move towards normality. Of co...See the full content of this document
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