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Subject: Re: RE: Battle of Vinegar Hill
Date: 1 Feb 1998 19:54:37 -0800


In a message dated 1/16/98 3:37:08 AM, wrote:

<<History has cast the Catholics and Presbyterians as
enemies, mistructful of each other's political aims, but the socio-economic
changes of these years had created a catholic middle class in towns in the
south and west of Ireland, and a Presbyterian one in the rapidly developing
port of Belfast. In time these two groups began to discern an identity of
economic and political interest.'' THE SUMMER SOLDIERS A. T. Q. Stewart,
The Blackstaff Press 1995 ISBN 0-85640-558-2
>>

Leon Uris's novel, Trinity, makes the point that just as the Catholic and
Presbyterian middle class were realizing this common interest, the government
in London "played the Orange card," driving a wedge between the two groups,
using religious bigotry to keep this potential power block from forming.

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