"The Irish Question" ("Ирландский вопрос") — страница 4

whole, and hence reduce conflict. Religion by itself does not have much to do with rioting. Catholics, in particular, are not significantly more likely than Protestants to riot. The recent troubles may have been presaged by Catholic civil rights activity in 1968 and 1969, which led to violence, but in 1973 the violence had escalated and spread to both communities more or less equally. Nor do religious beliefs have any significant effect; the devout are neither more nor less likely to riot then their less devout compatriots. In this, as in other ways, the conflict is not one of religious belief. Finally, political views about the origins of the conflict are important for Catholics but not as much for Protestants. Let us examine Catholics, beginning with the comparison of two

groups: those who think Catholics are entirely to blame for the troubles and those who think no blame at all attaches to Catholics. The first group is some 18 percent less likely to riot than is the second group. So for Catholics, rioting seems to have strong instrumental overtones in that those who have well defined views that attribute blame to Protestants are much more likely to riot. Their riots, like many block riots in the United States, are in part a means of seeking address for grievances. But for Protestants the interpretation placed on the conflict is much less important. Those who think Protestants themselves are entirely to blame are only 9 percent less likely to riot then are those who think Catholics are entirely to blame. Protestant rioting thus seems to be more

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современный Presaged предсказанный Devout искренний, набожный Compatriots соотечественник Coherent понятный, последовательность Adversary противник, враг The List of Books: 1.     Richard Kearney. The Irish Mind. Exploring Intellectual Traditions. Dublin 1985 2.     Harold Orel. Irish History and Culture. Aspects of a people’s heritage. Dublin 1979 3.     Jonah Alexander, Alan O’Day. Ireland’s Terrorist Dilemma. Dordrecht 1986 4.     T.M. Devine, David Dickson. Ireland and Scotland .Edinburgh 1983 5.     Peter Bromhead. Life in Modern Britain .Longman Group UK Limited, 1992