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Operation Banner: Military veterans attend parade
The event marked the 50th anniversary of troops being deployed in Northern Ireland.
www.bbc.co.uk
Operation Banner: Military veterans attend parade
The event marked the 50th anniversary of troops being deployed in Northern Ireland.www.bbc.co.uk
Have started listening to Ruth's audio, but not finished yet. She picked a point in time - 1969 - but that's only very recent. My uncle told me recently that he used to have to walk home an alternative route from school, so as not to meet the Catholic kids coming from their school, as he feared being beaten. His two older brothers were half a dozen years ahead of him, and had left school, so he had no one to back him up. We're talking about early 1950s. It goes back many hundreds of years. Sectarianism is hardly isolated to here though. There'd have been plenty of sectarianism in Britain over the millennia, when the Saxons, Celts, Romans, Vikings, Norman's and so on were mixing. Today I imagine you can find plenty of examples of Indian vs Pakistani vs Carribbean vs white Briton...