Topics discussed include population growth in Belfast, the Catholic elite and middle class, the Catholic working class, and the increase in segregation brought about the rising rivalry between Catholics and Protestants. The chapter also considers the churches in Ireland's ill-preparedness to cope with...
Ireland.—GEOGRAPHY.—Ireland lies in the Atlantic Ocean, west of Great Britain, from which it is separated in the northeast by the North Channel, in the east by the Irish Sea, and in the southeast by St. George's Channel.
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