the streets of West Belfast, burning
down scores of homes.^5 The gun battles
the following summer that so tried
Freeland’s patience also happened
during Protestant marches. Imagine that
every summer U.S. Army veterans from
the Northern states paraded through the
streets of Atlanta and Richmond to
commemorate their long-ago victory in
the American Civil War. In the dark
years of Northern Ireland, when Catholic
and Protestant were at each other’s
throats, that’s what marching season felt
like.
When the residents of the Lower Falls
looked up that afternoon and saw the
British Army descend on their
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