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Fri 08 Aug 2008Time to end our unforgivable ignorance of the North
ELAINE BYRNE:Ten years after Omagh, have we in the South made any effort to understand our Northern neighbours?
'I KNOW ALMOST nothing about it. I'm not at ease there. I've always felt a flush of relief recrossing the Border . . . North and South are worlds still largely unknown to each other." So wrote the late Nuala O'Faolain in her January 1998 Irish Timescolumn when she announced that she was moving to Northern Ireland to write her column. An Irish Timesletter writer, not particularly encouraging of her decision, chastised Nuala for her "near total ignorance of all things Northern . . . the information gap Ms O'Faolain is off to investigate doesn't exist."
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