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Northern Ireland’s centenary as much about the future as the past
BBC Spotlight next week examines the legacy of partition and new opinion poll findings on attitudes to Irish unity
The sight of Protestant and Catholic teenagers attacking the PSNI close to the Belfast peace line brought back memories of decades past.
But which decade?
- Mark Devenport
- The Irish Times
The Belfast City Hall Union Flag dispute of 2012 and 2013?
The Drumcree crises of the mid 1990s?
The early days of the Troubles in 1969?
Or even older days: the intense violence which accompanied partition of the island and the creation of Northern Ireland in the early 1920s?
If I am tempted to cast my net back 100 years, that’s…