Northern Ireland: Violent images plague land of rare natural beauty

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: April 24, 1988| Author: | Copyright information

DOWNPATRICK, Northern Ireland The amazingly green grazing land is divided tidily into irregularly shaped fields by walls of stone, whose colors match those of the roving clouds from which fitful showers fall.

Punctuating the gentle grays and shocking greens of the rural landscape are cheerful spots of yellow: brilliant bristly gorse, wild iris and shafts of sunlight that illuminate clifftop ruins against a dark sea.

The story of this Northern Ireland, a land of rare loveliness, seems not to get a hearing in the news media. It hardly seems possible to reconcile the quiet natural beauty ...

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