…most of the good shops were owned by Protestants. There were two factories in which the lower echelons were Catholic, but they had no managerial representations in the factories. There were two secondary schools: St Patrick’s, the Catholic institution, and the Protestant Royal, a fine school. But the difference between the Royal and St Pat’s was that the people there knew that its pupils were going to get the jobs when they were educated… because of what had happened before, the worst farms were in the mountainy parts and they were the Catholic farms. The good lowland farms were mostly
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