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Irish Identity Called Key to Conflict
By BOB BRILL
Kuman Staff Renorter
Larry J. McCaffrey, professor of history at Loyola University of Chicago, said yesterday that Ireland's troubles could be caused by problems of Catholic and Protestants.
McCaffrey, who spoke at the Kansas Union about Irish nationalism and Catholicism, said that Irish politicians had tried for years to get the Catholics to work with the Protestants and vice versa, but that so far nothing had worked.
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McCaffrey said he thought that the Reformation had placed a barrier between the British and Irish and that the Anglo-Protestants had reduced Catholics to serfs.
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"With a few exceptions, it is correct to say that religion served as the demarcation line separating those with power from the nonpowered. It was from the dispassessed," McCaffrey said.
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McCaffrey said he thought the Irish Republican Army was losing strength.
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"I the IRA may be wearing itself out," he said, adding that the IRA had lost their refuge in the South because they were being turned over to the police there.
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The conflict between Catholics and Protestants is an insoluble problem, and Americans hate to admit there are insoluble problems, he said.
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"It's identity. The Catholics in the north identify as Irish and the Protestants identify as British," he said. "It's been the history of Ireland that the vast majority of Protestants living in Ireland have always identified themselves as a sort of British garrison in Ireland, and the Catholics have identified themselves as Irish.
In an interview before his speech, he said the problem in Northern Ireland won't only a class struggle or a religious conflict but a civil rights movement.
"Religion is really the symbol of identity. It's a way of embassing patriotism."
McCaffrey said he thought the way to end the strife in Ireland would be to set up a coalition government. A middle ground must be found, he said, between the moderate Catholics and moderate Protestants.
"It's possible in the long run, with economic prosperity, that the government could get people thinking of material values and goals and comforts, but there is a long way to go in raising the standard of living in Northern Ireland," he said.
The Irish Republican Army doesn't understand the situation, he said, and is bound by the past to oppose the Protestants. The Irish Republican Army is nationalism and not by reality, he said.
"they (the IRA) have turned a civil rights movement into a civil war," Mr.
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McCaffrey said the Protestants thought the Catholics were inferior people.
Although legal discrimination against the Catholics have ended, McCaffrey said, the Irish will have to wait to see what can be done in the future with the government, since no proportional government with both Catholics and Protestants exists.
"It started out in 1967 as a civil rights issue and now in 1973 it's a national question."
"It's come to the point now where it's British against Irish nationalism, and the rest of us want to be united."
He said Americans could understand the Irish problem better than the Irish.
"It is much easier to see someone else problem," he said.
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