From: mbates@ionet.net (Mike D Bates)
Subject: Re: North Ireland
Date: 1995/07/04
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Barbara La Porta (MC9725@mclink.it) wrote:

> I'm leaving to Ulster, North Ireland, and I'm not able to find 
> news about IRA, Belfast and so on...If someone can help me, please
> write in my M)box. Thanks to everybody.
> Barbara

Barbara,

Tune into the BBC world service on shortwave or mediumwave (648 khz).
There has been a major development: The release of a British
paratrooper convicted of murdering a teenage joyrider.  I have heard
reports of angry and violent reactions in Derry and Belfast.  

Other sources of info:  The Irish Times (http://www.irish-times.com)
and the Daily Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk) are both on the
World-Wide Web.  Also, check the newsgroup soc.culture.irish.

We traveled to Ulster last summer and had a lovely time.  We're set to
return but recent developments make me nervous, especially with
sectarian celebrations coming soon.  (July 12 is a Protestant
celebration of the victory of Protestant King William of Orange over
Catholic King James II in 1690 at the Boyne River.  Catholics in
Ireland mark a religious feast in August in similar manner.)

If you go, be sure to hop over the border to Co Donegal, which is in
Ulster, but also is in the Republic of Ireland.  It is a beautiful
land.  

--
Mike and Mikki Bates
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
mbates@ionet.net