Northern Ireland
Sir, —In reply to M. Creel (April 30), Northern Ireland has no desire to become part of the Irish Republic because numerically it is a protestant country which, unlike southern Ireland, retained its British identity. The brutality of the I.R.A. has not changed the will of these staunch Irish people. Some of the younger people have not the faith of their forefathers, but the big majority are loyal British subjects. The six counties of Ireland’s Ulster province are Irish through and through and it is sheer nonsense to call them “as much interlopers in Ireland as the whites are in Rhodesia.” Also, the British Army is there by request and not as an occupation army. Protectors yes —to get the enemy off their backs.—Yours, etc., A. DELHANTY. May 3, 1979.
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