The Northern Ireland Riots: Don't Mess With People Who've Recently Experienced Random Death

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Until 1998, Northern Ireland was immersed in a low-level civil war. Especially in working-class areas, there were constant tit-for-tat killings. The mainly ethnically Irish Catholics, represented by the IRA, would bomb or shoot-up a pub in a Protestant area. So the ethnically Scottish Protestants, in the form of groups such as the Ulster Volunteer Force, would takevengeance on a Catholic pub. This was less than 30 years ago, tales of what happened are still raw; Northern Ireland, though now at peace, still has post boxes with narrow entries so that you can’t blow them up with parcel bombs. The “Peace Wall” between the Protestant and Catholic part of Belfast still shuts firmly every evening.