A tale of Ireland in Ramadam

A young woman graduate I had the pleasure to meet over supper last night spoke with an accent I quickly  recognised from my days of reporting on the Troubles n Northern Ireland.

Sarah was her name. She was impressed how I managed to pinpoint her roots to  'north of Belfast' and well beyond the city to another town with a name that I thought might define her. "Well, its Derry, or Londonderry, isn't it, how do you call it? " I asked teasingly.

For decades Catholics, north and south of the Irish b...