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RE: Belfast Castle
Mostly facetious but the Irish can have deep emotions towards others that can bring out violence. For a good example, read some about the Northern Ireland Conflict.
Mostly facetious but the Irish can have deep emotions towards others that can bring out violence. For a good example, read some about the Northern Ireland Conflict.
I would imagine it did put family against family, similar to our Civil War. Hostilities among family probably existed for some time after the Civil War as well.
For Ireland I hope in time their strong emotions will fade.
Will see what I can find on the conflict. If the hotel and pub were both bombed several times that is an indication of the fequency of the violence..
More like neighborhood against neighborhood with Protestants in one neighborhood and Catholics in another. It was a political war rather than a religious war but that's how the lines got drawn. Drug sales to fund the war, terrorism, assassinations....ugly time for Northern Ireland.
And everyone felt they were right.
Ugly, confusing, sad.