The Sectarianism of the North

Sectarianism was an inherited environment, which defeated the efforts of any individuals to really overcome it. People could withdraw from it on a personal level, or even on a community level to some extent, but it was there as part of the atmosphere. You simply couldn't declare, I won't do any of that kind of thing, because if you made mistakes in that department, they could be very costly. See, it was the casual sort of contempt for Catholics in the North. They were not relevant to anything. William Lorry was the minister for Labour at Stormont during World War II. He was agitated at the number of American soldiers stationed in the north who were Roman Catholic and