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Thu 09 Sep 2008The North or Northern Ireland? Textual politics matter
To both communities, denial of their preferred term for the place they live in remains disrespectful, writes FIONNUALA O'CONNOR
TAKE THE long view, and you can see how all might yet be well. Take a snapshot instead, see the outlines of underlying dysfunction, and your hopes might be damp and dashed as the summer. As if stalemate on education reform and legal status for the Irish language had not imposed strain enough on an unpromising relationship, now one of the oldest sources of grievance has been tipped in - language of another kind.
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