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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (92265)1/1/2005 3:16:37 AM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
I have always thought that without Gerry Adams' moderating influence, the IRA would have acted much more violently.

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While it is a bit uncertain right now when there will be actual peace and permanent power sharing in Northern Ireland, all the parties seem very close to a deal. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to overcome oppression from a state like Britain nonviolently. The violence in the struggle on both sides has been very disturbing. There are a whole bunch of messed up people in Northern Ireland, the poorer Catholics AND Protestants whose underground paramilitary groups engaged each other. Several generations of them now have very high rates of mental illness and drug addiction. In the 70's and 80's a lot of the women and children were on prescription drugs because their lives were so stressful. I don't know if that is still the case. I do know that the educated middle class in Belfast all live together in the same neighborhoods, Catholics and Protestants side by side. In the rest of the country, towns seem to be either Protestant or Catholic, but most of the fighting always has been in a very small part of Belfast.

When Gerry Adams spoke sometime in the '90's at the Irish Cultural Center in San Francisco, Mayor Willie Brown, Jane Fonda's ex Tom Hayden, and a huge contingent of Democratic elected officials in California were there. He is much respected among this group. I have always enjoyed his speeches because they are very much about the future and women's rights and a peaceful Ireland. I think he is very idealistic.
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