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From: John Blest< >
Subject: Re: RE: Battle of Vinegar Hill
Date: 2 Feb 1998 06:55:21 -0800

At 07:54 PM 2/1/98 -0800, wrote:
>
>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.
>
>
>Are you not the same person that admonished others for not sticking to
genealogy?
Best Regards, John Blest

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