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data-file-height="367" /></a><figcaption>When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?' —<a href="/wiki/Quentin_Crisp" title="Quentin Crisp">Quentin Crisp</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Belfast_-_the_morning_after_._._._-_geograph.org.uk_-_628924.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Belfast_-_the_morning_after_._._._-_geograph.org.uk_-_628924.jpg/220px-Belfast_-_the_morning_after_._._._-_geograph.org.uk_-_628924.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Belfast_-_the_morning_after_._._._-_geograph.org.uk_-_628924.jpg/330px-Belfast_-_the_morning_after_._._._-_geograph.org.uk_-_628924.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Belfast_-_the_morning_after_._._._-_geograph.org.uk_-_628924.jpg/440px-Belfast_-_the_morning_after_._._._-_geograph.org.uk_-_628924.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="418" /></a><figcaption>Northern Ireland remains a deeply divided society. The number of 'peace walls', physical barriers separating Catholic and Protestant communities, has increased sharply since the first cease-fires in 1994. Most people in the region cannot envisage the barriers being removed. ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Geohegan" class="extiw" title="w:Peter Geohegan">Peter Geohegan</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:AR-18.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/AR-18.jpg/220px-AR-18.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="63" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/AR-18.jpg/330px-AR-18.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/AR-18.jpg/440px-AR-18.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="171" /></a><figcaption>A brave <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Ulster_Constabulary" class="extiw" title="w:Royal Ulster Constabulary">RUC</a> man came marching up into our street, six hundred <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British soldiers</a> he had lined up at his feet. 'Come out, ye cowardly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenians" class="extiw" title="w:Fenians">Fenians</a>, come out and fight'. But he cried, 'I'm only joking', when he heard the Armalite. —"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Armalite" class="extiw" title="w:Little Armalite">My Little Armalite</a>" </figcaption></figure> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland" class="extiw" title="w:Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a></b> is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="extiw" title="w:Countries of the United Kingdom">constituent region</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> in the north-east of the island of <a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a>. Northern Ireland shares <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland%E2%80%93United_Kingdom_border" class="extiw" title="w:Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border">a border</a> to the south and west with the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" title="Republic of Ireland">Republic of Ireland</a>. Established by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland_Act_1998" class="extiw" title="w:Northern Ireland Act 1998">Northern Ireland Act 1998</a> as part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday_Agreement" class="extiw" title="w:Good Friday Agreement">Good Friday Agreement</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland_Assembly" class="extiw" title="w:Northern Ireland Assembly">Northern Ireland Assembly</a> holds responsibility for a range of devolved policy matters, while other areas are reserved for the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Government of the United Kingdom">British government</a>. Its capital and largest city is <a href="/wiki/Belfast" title="Belfast">Belfast</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes">Quotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_Ireland&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>I believe the problem lies in the older <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/generation_gap" class="extiw" title="w:generation gap">generations</a> who have suffered terribly on all sides through <a href="/wiki/Violence" title="Violence">violence</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fear" title="Fear">fear</a>...</b> My generation has a responsibility to not restrain the youth by our <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bigotry" class="extiw" title="w:bigotry">bigotry</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separatism" class="extiw" title="w:Separatism">division</a>. It is my hope that in the future we will have non-sectarian elections in a Parliament of <a href="/wiki/Left-wing_politics" title="Left-wing politics">left</a>, <a href="/wiki/Right-wing_politics" title="Right-wing politics">right</a> and <a href="/wiki/Centrism" title="Centrism">centre</a>... it is time to put aside <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egoism" class="extiw" title="w:Egoism">egos</a>, individual and collective, for the sake of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/youth" class="extiw" title="w:youth">youth</a>... If this scenario of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/dysfunctional" class="extiw" title="w:dysfunctional">dysfunctional</a> <a href="/wiki/Politics" title="Politics">politics</a> continues, we are each challenged to ask the question: are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinn_Fein" class="extiw" title="w:Sinn Fein">Sinn Fein</a> or the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Unionists_(DUP)" class="extiw" title="w:Democratic Unionists (DUP)">Democratic Unionists (DUP)</a> pursuing divisionary politics in a quest for continued power?... At this point in our history, faced as we are with important decision regarding <a href="/wiki/Brexit" title="Brexit">Brexit</a> and the question of a soft/hard border, it is even more important that all our elected politicians be present at the table to speak on behalf of the people... It is also important that our political representatives work for a full implementation of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday_Agreement" class="extiw" title="w:Good Friday Agreement">Good Friday Agreement</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/healing" class="extiw" title="w:healing">healing</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/reconciliation" class="extiw" title="w:reconciliation">reconciliation</a> of our society... Unfortunately, if the two parties are not able to reconcile their differences then it is the responsibility of the British and Irish governments to hold talks with remaining parties willing to govern in Northern Ireland. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/nobel-winner-mairead-maguire-in-alternative-northern-ireland-talks-proposal-37338426.html"><i>Nobel winner Mairead Maguire in alternative Northern Ireland talks proposal, Belfast Telegraph,</i> Steven Alexander </a> (18 September 2018)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Northern Ireland</a> that provides the classic contemporary demonstration of <a href="/wiki/Carl_von_Clausewitz" title="Carl von Clausewitz">Clausewitzian</a> principles in action. In 1974 the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Protestants" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ulster Protestants">Ulster Protestants</a> rejected <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consociationalism" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Consociationalism">powersharing</a> under the 1973 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunningdale_Agreement" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Sunningdale Agreement">Sunningdale agreement</a> to the point of launching a <a href="/wiki/General_strike" title="General strike">general strike</a> which the <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British army</a> warned the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Government of the United Kingdom">British government</a> it could not handle. The government thereupon abandoned the project. But in 1998 the majority of Unionist political parties and at least half the Unionist electorate have come to accept power-sharing under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday_Agreement" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Good Friday Agreement">the deal</a> brokered by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo_Mowlam" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Mo Mowlam">Mo Mowlam</a>. Wherein lies the essential difference between 1973–74 and 1998? It lies in the profound yearning on the island of <a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a> and on the <a href="/wiki/Great_Britain" title="Great Britain">British mainland</a> (including <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">Whitehall and Westminster</a>) for "peace" after the intervening 25 years of unrelenting "war" on the part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Provisional Irish Republican Army">IRA</a>, years of violence of the most extreme kind intended (to quote Clausewitz) "to compel our opponent to fulfil our will". Thus all the talk of compromise and reconciliation in Northern Ireland is just so much small-l <a href="/wiki/Liberalism" title="Liberalism">liberal</a> blather disguising the Clausewitzian reality that by their "continuation of <a href="/wiki/Politics" title="Politics">politics</a> by other means" the IRA have indeed compelled their opponents to fulfil their will. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Correlli_Barnett" title="Correlli Barnett">Correlli Barnett</a>, 'Home front, front line', <i>The Spectator</i> (4 July 1998)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Northern Ireland remains a deeply divided society. The number of '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_walls" class="extiw" title="w:Peace walls">peace walls</a>', physical barriers separating <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Protestantism" title="Protestantism">Protestant</a> communities, has increased sharply since the first cease-fires in 1994. Most people in the region cannot envisage the barriers being removed, according to a recent survey conducted by the University of Ulster. In <a href="/wiki/House" title="House">housing</a> and <a href="/wiki/Education" title="Education">education</a>, Northern Ireland remains one of the most <a href="/wiki/Segregation" class="mw-redirect" title="Segregation">segregated</a> tracts of land anywhere on the planet. Less than one in ten children attends a school that is integrated between Catholics and Protestant. This figure has remained stubbornly low despite the cessation of <a href="/wiki/Violence" title="Violence">violence</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Geoghegan" class="extiw" title="w:Peter Geoghegan">Peter Geoghegan</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160628072457/http://foreignpolicy.com/2012/12/20/return-of-the-troubles/">"Return of the Troubles: Is Northern Ireland falling apart all over again?"</a> (20 December 2012), <i>Foreign Policy</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Serbs" title="Serbs">Serbs</a> informed me what a putative peace-building trip to Northern Ireland had actually taught them. 'We need bigger walls,' one said. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Geoghegan" class="extiw" title="w:Peter Geoghegan">Peter Geoghegan</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160628072824/https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/sep/29/belfast-berlin-wall-moment-permanent-peace-walls">"Will Belfast ever have a Berlin Wall moment and tear down its 'peace walls'?"</a> (29 September 2015), <i>The Guardian</i>, United Kingdom</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><p>I was stopped by a <a href="/wiki/Soldiers" title="Soldiers">soldier</a>, he said 'You are a swine'. He hit me with his rifle and he kicked me in the groin, I begged and I pleaded, sure my manners were polite. But all the time I'm thinking of my little <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armalite" class="extiw" title="w:Armalite">Armalite</a>...</p><p>A brave <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Ulster_Constabulary" class="extiw" title="w:Royal Ulster Constabulary">RUC</a> man came marching up into our street, six hundred <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British soldiers</a> he had lined up at his feet. 'Come out, ye cowardly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenians" class="extiw" title="w:Fenians">Fenians</a>, come out and fight'. But he cried, 'I'm only joking', when he heard the Armalite.</p> <ul><li>"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Armalite" class="extiw" title="w:Little Armalite">My Little Armalite</a>" (1975)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We share a deep concern for peace and justice in Northern Ireland and condemn all violence and <a href="/wiki/Terrorism" title="Terrorism">terrorism</a> in that strife-torn land. We support the process of <a href="/wiki/Peace" title="Peace">peace</a> and reconciliation established by the Anglo-Irish Agreement, and we encourage new investment and economic reconstruction in Northern Ireland on the basis of strict <a href="/wiki/Equal_opportunity" title="Equal opportunity">equality of opportunity</a> and <a href="/wiki/Discrimination" title="Discrimination">non-discrimination</a> in <a href="/wiki/Employment" title="Employment">employment</a>. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150421074053/http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25846"><i>Republican Party Platform of 1988</i></a> (16 August 1988), Republican National Convention</li></ul></li> <li>We urge peace and justice for Northern Ireland. We welcome the newly begun process of constitutional dialogue that holds so much promise. We encourage <a href="/wiki/Investment" title="Investment">investment</a> and reconstruction to create opportunity for all. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150529195928/http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25847"><i>Republican Party Platform of 1992</i></a> (17 August 1992), Republican National Convention</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Northern Ireland is in the unbelievably special position of having privileged access, not just to the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">U.K.</a> home market … but also the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_single_market" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:European single market">single market</a> [...] That's like the world's most exciting economic zone! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rishi_Sunak" title="Rishi Sunak">Rishi Sunak</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.politico.eu/article/rishi-sunak-eu-windsor-framework-brexit-deal-sell-belfast/">"Rishi Sunak gives EU 'Windsor framework' deal the hard sell in Belfast"</a>, <i>Politico</i> (28 February 2023). The newly negotiated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsor_Framework" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Windsor Framework">Windsor Framework</a> altered the earlier <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland_Protocol" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Northern Ireland Protocol">Northern Ireland Protocol</a> which had led the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Unionist_Party" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Democratic Unionist Party">Democratic Unionist Party</a> (DUP) to walk out of power-sharing institutions in October 2022.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholics</a> or the God of the <a href="/wiki/Protestantism" title="Protestantism">Protestants</a> in whom you don't believe?' <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Quentin_Crisp" title="Quentin Crisp">Quentin Crisp</a>, Quoted in The Wit and Wisdom of Quentin Crisp</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For generations, a wide range of shooting in Northern Ireland has provided all sections of the population with a pastime which ... has occupied a great deal of leisure time. Unlike many other countries, the outstanding characteristic of the sport has been that it was not confined to any one class. <ul><li>Northern Ireland Tourist Board, August 29, 1969 (Shortly before The Troubles broke out)</li></ul></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/English_people" title="English people">English</a> avoided <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_war" class="extiw" title="w:Civil war">civil war</a> but in the 1590s and the first decade of the 17<sup>th</sup> century they were embroiled in desperate struggles to subdue the ‘wild <a href="/wiki/Irish_people" title="Irish people">Irish</a>,’ which they finally achieved—for the moment—in the last years of old <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England" title="Elizabeth I of England">Elizabeth</a>’s reign. Thereafter their colonial energies were absorbed with ‘planting’ the conquered country, especially Ulster, until then the wildest part of it. Early in the 1600s Ulster was made the theater of the largest <a href="/wiki/Population_transfer" title="Population transfer">transfer of population</a> ever carried out under <a href="/wiki/Monarchy_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Monarchy of the United Kingdom">the crown</a>—thousands of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_Presbyterians" class="extiw" title="w:Scots Presbyterians">Scots Presbyterians</a> being allocated parcels of confiscated Catholic land along a defensible military line running along the Ulster border: a line which is still demographically significant to this day and explains why the Ulster problem remains so intractable. This major Ulster planting took root because it was based on agriculture and centered round hard-working, experienced <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Lowland" class="extiw" title="w:Scottish Lowland">Scots lowland</a> <a href="/wiki/Farmers" class="mw-redirect" title="Farmers">farmers</a> who were also ready to take up arms to defend their new possessions. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Johnson" title="Paul Johnson">Paul Johnson</a>, <i>A History of the American People</i> (1999), p. 21</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_Ireland&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="noprint" id="sisterproject" style="clear: right; border: solid #aaa 1px; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; font-size: 90%; background: #f9f9f9; 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