If we can't agree on a name, does Northern Ireland even exist?
There exists a photograph of this writer standing before a giant â71â mounted outside the Botanic Gardens in Belfast. I am very small. But even if I were larger, the towering red digits would suggest totalitarian confidence of a Riefenstahlian stripe. That wasnât quite how it was. I had been brought to the now largely forgotten exposition celebrating â or commemorating, or perhaps merely acknowledging â the 50th anniversary of Northern Ireland. I remember having a nice time. I also remember not really understanding what it was all about. It is difficult to mark the...
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