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�Contents
Page
Introduction
111
Preface
V
Mixed Emotions- Foreword
Vll
Say all you have to say
1
We walked the walk
8
Family is the most important thing
15
Go for it and be happy
22
We don't need to be labelled
29
You two against the rest
36
A little tolerance goes a long way
43
xi
�Contents
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Our love encourages respect
50
Not enough Christianity
57
Love conquers everything
64
A short history of mixed marriage in Ireland
71
x ii
�Our love encourages respect
50
�Our love encourages respect
Stephen and Sharon live in a small village in the
Fermanagh lakelands. They have been married for
five years. Stephen, whose father was killed in the
'Poppy Day' bombing of Enniskillen, has suffered
severe ill-health as a direct result of being in the same
explosion. Sharon, whose Mum died only days before
this interview, works in retail in the town. They make
a strong team that faces the future with hope and
humour.
"M
ixed marriage is all about compromise", says
Sharon, "we have learned to compromise and,
hopefully, one day we will be blessed with children and
will be faced with more decisions and more compromises
about their upbringing." "Yes," says Stephen, "trying to
see the other person's point of view helps us all to see
that little bit better."
Sharon was born in Bantry in County Cork, but spent
nearly all of her primary school years in Surrey where
she had friends of different religions and races. "Those
things weren't considered important in England, but we
came to live in Enniskillen when I was about 10 and I
learned that they do things differently over here. It was a
culture shock."
Sharon lived in an all-Catholic street, attended an allCatholic primary school and had no Protestant friends.
"It took me a while to get used to this. I had always been
brought up to take people as I found them and to treat
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�everyone the same, but when I went on a holiday to
England and brought back little presents of pencils for
my schoolmates, the pencils with the rubbers on the top,
I found that I couldn't hand them out. They had Union
Jacks printed on them and the local schoolteacher, a wellknown Nationalist, would have had a fit. It's sad.
Something so simple, taken so seriously. Petty really."
Sharon was lucky in that she was chosen as a 16 year old
student at Enniskillen's Mount Lourdes convent to take
a cross-community trip to America as part of the Ulster
Project to the United States. "It was a life-changing
experience", she says. "Six Protestants and six Catholics
spending four weeks thousands of miles from 'The
Troubles'. Our American host families were great and we
all bonded. These people, who had been strangers to me,
became like extended family within a very short time.
I'm glad to say that we still keep in touch with all of
them."
Sharon gave up the chance to go to university when her
late mother suffered a heart attack, but has no regrets. "I
chose to stay to help look after Mum and I'm glad. I went
from my old part-time Saturday job in retailer 'Next' to
full-time in the same branch. I had all the comforts of
home, as well as plenty of money and my own car. And I
got to appreciate my parents. What more could you ask?"
Stephen was born in Enniskillen into a forces' family.
"My late father was a station sergeant in the Royal Ulster
Constabulary, while my mother served in the Ulster
Defence Regiment. Several other members of my family,
who were also in the security forces, were killed during
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�'The Troubles'." As a boy Stephen had friends of both
denominations. "We moved about a fair bit in the early
days and lived in predominantly Protestant areas", he
says, "but, I didn 't choose my friends by their religion. I
wasn 't brought up like that. In fact, my best friends, the
Byrne boys, were Catholics."
Stephen's father retired from the force in 1985 and father
and son grew closer. "I'm sure that my childhood had
been overshadowed by the fear that something bad would
happen to my father, my mother or my brother. They
were all on the front line against terrorism at one time or
another. That eased when dad left the RUC and life
looked brighter than ever."
All that ended tragically, when former sergeant Samuel
Gault was among eleven people killed in the Provisional
IRA's bombing of the Remembrance Sunday gathering
in Enniskillen in 1987. Stephen, who had just turned 18,
was standing beside his father when the explosion
occurred.
"Initially, when I came round, I could hardly see because
of the dust and I still remember the choking sensation.
My father was lying at my feet and I knew straight away
that he was dead. For about a week or so I was in a daze,
but my mother was fantastic. One minute, she had had a
husband, next she had nobody. She was on her own, but
she handled herself with dignity and helped us through
those tragic and traumatic circumstances. I remember the
wake and the Catholic people who came to offer their
condolences. One man said to me, 'These people didn't
do this in our name ' . I knew he was right and listened
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�when my mother said, ' You can't get drawn into any sort
of trouble or with any bad people in retaliation for what
happened. You have to live your life '."
Two weeks after the bombing Stephen developed
psoriasis which has since developed into psoriatic
arthritis. "During the past 24 years", he says, "I have
undergone every treatment available for both conditions.
Sharon injects me twice a week with the latest of these
drugs. It is not a cure, but it does give my joints a bit more
freedom of movement."
Before Stephen started this treatment in 2006, he was
unable to walk or drive and virtually bed-ridden. "Sharon
had to dress and feed me and it was a dark time. I still
suffer depression, sleep deprivation and anxiety after all
this time and I know that what I am going through is a
direct result of the bomb on 8th November 1987."
Sharon and Stephen met in Enniskillen Golf Club in
2003. "We got chatting", she says, "Stephen knew my
Dad without knowing me and we realised that we had
actually lived very close to one another when we were
younger. We started going out together and that was it."
"Yes", says Stephen, "there was no talk of religion. We
liked each other and religion didn't come into it."
"Religion was never an issue for us", says Sharon, "but
it was for other relations in our families. The funny thing
is that it was the actual wedding ceremony, rather than
the marriage itself, that caused the most 'concern ' .
Church or chapel, priest or minister? That kind of thing.
To be honest, we believe that it was more to do with
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�'what will the neighbours say' and not the fact that we
were about to become a mixed marriage couple."
"Our mixed marriage is probably different from many
others because Stephen's family was directly affected by
the violence and I am sure some people had a lot of
reservations about Stephen marrying a Catholic girl from
Cork."
"We learned to deal with the disapproval of others", says
Stephen, "not friends or family, but from outsiders and
strangers. And I'm glad we did. If you are lucky enough
to find your soul mate, regardless of religion, colour or
race, you shouldn't think twice about marriage. Just go
for it."
Sharon and Stephen married in Rossorry Church of
Ireland with both families attending and both clergy
playing their parts. "An aunt from England had suggested
we marry in Spain", says Sharon, "I suppose she thought
she was giving good advice, but, thank goodness, we
ignored it. We had a great day to be proud of."
Stephen says, "Advice is all well and good when it comes
from the right source. I would urge couples to contact the
N orthem Ireland Mixed Marriage Association
(NIMMA) , as well as their own clergy. Families think
that they are doing the best for you by offering advice
and support on what they think is right. However, it may
be right for them, but not right for you. Go to the people
who know about these things."
"We were lucky with our family backgrounds and the
way we were brought up", says Sharon. "We were aware
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�of each other's religion and respect each other's beliefs.
Our love encourages that respect and we now attend and
participate in each other's church services regularly." "I
think it's not about what church you go to", says Stephen,
"but who you go with and the love you bring with you
that really counts."
Sharon & Stephen
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Mixed Emotions is a collection containing 10 personal accounts / stories about mixed marriage (between Protestants and Catholics) in Northern Ireland. Nine of the accounts are based on joint interviews of the married couple. The accounts were published in book format in 2012.<br /><strong>McLaughlin, Paul.</strong> (2012). Mixed Emotions: Real stories of mixed marriage, (Northern Ireland Mixed Marriage Association; NIMMA). Belfast: NIMMA.
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�Contents
Page
Introduction
111
Preface
V
Mixed Emotions- Foreword
Vll
Say all you have to say
1
We walked the walk
8
Family is the most important thing
15
Go for it and be happy
22
We don't need to be labelled
29
You two against the rest
36
A little tolerance goes a long way
43
xi
�Contents
Page
Our love encourages respect
50
Not enough Christianity
57
Love conquers everything
64
A short history of mixed marriage in Ireland
71
x ii
�Not enough Christianity
57
�Not enough Christianity
Michael and Shirley live in a quiet cui-de-sac in
Glengormley on the northern outskirts of Belfast. It
is a mixed area. They are an outgoing, friendly and
fun-loving couple who work as psychiatric nurses in
the community. Both are in their late forties.
"
No
matter what, ifyou really love each other, that
love will conquer all", says Shirley when asked
what advice she would give to couples contemplating
making a mixed marriage. Michael echoes those
sentiments, but says that hard talking has a major part to
play in making any relationship, particularly a mixed one.
"Talk to each other, talk to your peers, talk to everybody
openly and honestly", says Michael, "and that openness
will pay dividends." They have been married for more
than seven years and their story is testimony to that
openness.
Shirley was born in the tiny County Antrim seaport of
Portballintrae and raised in Bushmills where she attended
the local primary and grammar schools.
"I come from a family of three girls and Mum and Dad
and my sisters would have been regular churchgoers at
St John the Baptist Church of Ireland in the
predominantly Protestant village where I was also a
Sunday School teacher for a while."
"My father would have regarded himself as a very loyal
Protestant. He was a member of the Loyal Orders, the
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�Orange and the Black, as well as the Freemasons but, as
he worked in the retail trade, he had many dealings with
Roman Catholics and would have been tolerant enough
of them in his own way. I remember him occasionally
saying things like 'He's all right for a Catholic' about
someone or other. That was the way it was then. A
grudging respect I suppose. Mum's aunt had married a
Roman Catholic many years before and gone to live in
London and she visited my mother and father over the
years. This was a normal family thing, but maybe that
marriage situation was only really possible then outside
Northern Ireland."
"I was never brought up to hate anyone for his or her
religion and, like many another teenager, spent a lot of
time at Kelly's in Portrush where we danced away our
weekends without ever wondering what religion anyone
else was."
Shirley left home at eighteen to travel to Belfast to train
as a student nurse and soon found herself part of the
intense camaraderie that was Purdysbum Hospital in the
1980s.
"I'd decided that this was what I wanted to do and really
enjoyed my time there. I even met a young man called
Michael, who was also a student nurse, and we began
what would develop into a long-lasting friendship that
took several twists and turns along the way. I didn't
attend church in Belfast. There was so much else to do,
but I did when I returned on visits home."
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�"I did actually get engaged to a Roman Catholic and
brought him to meet my folks . They ' accepted' him to an
extent, but somehow thinking back, I don't believe my
father ever thought for one minute that I would marry
him. In the end, we grew apart. That had nothing to with
any religious differences."
Michaeljokes that he was born on the ' wrong ' side ofthe
Newtownards Road in Belfast. His father ran a grocer 's
shop across the road from St Matthew 's Roman Catholic
church on the edge of a strongly Protestant area.
"A few Catholics lived on our side, but trade was very
scarce during the marching month of July", he says, "and
redevelopment came at a good time in the early 1960s
when we moved to another shop in the Clonard district
of the city. We were happy there, my two brothers and I
served on the altar in the local monastery while my father,
who could be described as a true social democrat, was
well respected. We lived above the shop and manys the
time he would have opened up in the small hours of the
morning to make sure that no customer was left without
staples like bread and milk."
"My father's father and grandfather had served in the
Royal Irish Constabulary before partition and in the late
1960s he had two cousins who were serving members of
the Royal Ulster Constabulary. One of them was a station
sergeant just half a mile away on the Springfield Road.
The onset of the Troubles caused upheaval for our family
and the burning of Bombay Street around the corner from
us was just the start. We were forced to move, not by
loyalist mobs I have to say, after my father refused to ban
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�police and soldiers from his shop. Our house was paintbombed, then my father's car daubed and we moved to
the relative safety of Norfolk Parade off Belfast's Glen
Road. Ironically, before the Troubles, that was where the
majority of Catholic policemen lived."
"I grew up attending the local Christian Brothers'
Grammar School and I have no horror stories on that
score. I got a good education and have fond memories of
trips to the Gaeltacht in Gweedore. I turned down the
chance to go into catering at the college in Portrush, took
exams at Belfast's College of Business Studies and
eventually the road led to Purdysbum, student nursing
and the beginning of lifetime friendship with Shirley."
Michael married his first wife Theresa at 22. "Theresa's
mum had been a convert and was as Catholic as can be
with shrines and statues and holy pictures all over the
place, but Theresa had aunts, uncles and cousins who
would have been terrified of that stuff. Northern Ireland
is such a strange place that I suppose that, not too far
under the skin, we are all mixed to a certain extent."
Sadly, Theresa died at just 37 years of age and Michael
was left alone. Well, not quite alone as he says, "I always
had good friends and I remember at some of the darkest
times before Theresa was so ill, Shirley and her sister
would take me out for the evening and, better still, make
sure I got home okay. They were true friends."
Shirley remembers. "I was at Michael and Theresa 's
wedding all those years before and also at her funeral.
Michael came to my father 's funeral just six weeks after
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�Theresa passed away and I appreciated his support
despite his own pain of bereavement. We were there for
each other."
Michael and Shirley's relationship developed over time,
but even workmates who shared office space with them
were unaware that they were 'walking out together' as
Michael puts it. "I'm afraid their observation skills were
poor as one of our bosses commented."
Michael and Shirley went on to get engaged, courtesy of
a 'champagne and roses' proposal on both knees after
Michael had first asked Shirley's mother for her
daughter's hand in marriage. His father had called it
'observing the proprieties'.
"We were open with everyone once we had decided that
we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together. That
meant my family, Michael 's family and, importantly,
Theresa's family."
So it was that six months later, all three families were
present when Church of Ireland rector the Rev Oliver
Thompson, assisted by Roman Catholic priest Fr Dan
Whyte, celebrated their marriage in Shirley's home
church. Fr Dan was invited to share in the marriage by
Mr Thompson.
"We are older and hopefully a little wiser than many
young people who contemplate mixed marriage and our
openness with each other and other people, which can
probably be attributed to both our upbringing and our
professional training stood us in good stead", says
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�Michael. "I'm fairly sure that my mum and dad would
have preferred me to have married in a Catholic church,
but we knew what we wanted and it went really well. My
little niece, Theresa's brother's child, was our flower girl
and all the children who have grown up with us have
been very supportive."
Neither Michael nor Shirley is complacent about how
things have turned out.
"We have been lucky because of circumstances. Our age,
our friendship, even our families and a shared sense of
humour that a psychiatric nurse must have to survive,
have all helped us get through. We want other couples,
maybe younger, maybe not, to see that, at the end of the
day, a mixed marriage like any marriage is all about love
and that", as Michael says, "sometimes, there's too much
religion and not enough Christianity."
Shirley & Michael
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Mixed Emotions is a collection containing 10 personal accounts / stories about mixed marriage (between Protestants and Catholics) in Northern Ireland. Nine of the accounts are based on joint interviews of the married couple. The accounts were published in book format in 2012.<br /><strong>McLaughlin, Paul.</strong> (2012). Mixed Emotions: Real stories of mixed marriage, (Northern Ireland Mixed Marriage Association; NIMMA). Belfast: NIMMA.
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Northern Ireland Mixed Marriage Association (NIMMA)
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Northern Ireland Mixed Marriage Association (NIMMA)
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2012
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10
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ISBN 978-0-9571669-1-2
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8
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<span>'Not enough Christianity', chapter in, </span><strong>McLaughlin, Paul.</strong><span> (2012). Mixed Emotions: Real stories of mixed marriage, (Northern Ireland Mixed Marriage Association; NIMMA). Belfast: NIMMA.</span><br /><span>ISBN 978-0-9571669-1-2</span>
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Northern Ireland Mixed Marriage Association (NIMMA)
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Paul McLaughlin / NIMMA
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�Contents
Page
Introduction
111
Preface
V
Mixed Emotions- Foreword
Vll
Say all you have to say
1
We walked the walk
8
Family is the most important thing
15
Go for it and be happy
22
We don't need to be labelled
29
You two against the rest
36
A little tolerance goes a long way
43
xi
�Contents
Page
Our love encourages respect
50
Not enough Christianity
57
Love conquers everything
64
A short history of mixed marriage in Ireland
71
x ii
�Love conquers everything
64
�Love conquers everything
Ann and Stephen live in a beautiful lake-front house
in County Fermanagh. Stephen, originally from
Belfast, is a former engineer and entrepreneur, while
Ann, who was born and raised in Enniskillen, retired
recently from a teaching career. They have been
married since 1975, have two sons and a growing
family of grandchildren.
"
M
ixed marriage can nearly be defined as an
appreciation of each other's cultures", says
Stephen. "We are culturally different in many ways, but
similar in others and it is about achieving balance through
listening, talking and compromise. I can't stress too
strongly the importance of education in helping to
develop an understanding of difference." Not
surprisingly, Ann agrees. "We have based our marriage
on mutual understanding and always encouraged our
children to tolerate all creeds and none and to accept
people for who they are and not what religion they are.
We have made a successful mixed marriage and we want
to show that love conquers everything."
Ann, one of five children, was born and raised on a mixed
council estate in Enniskillen. Her mother was a devout
Catholic, but her father, a former British soldier, was not
a regular churchgoer. "I grew up in a mixed area and had
friends from both sides - although we didn't think about
'sides ' at all. My mother was the religious one and made
sure we went to Mass and the sacraments, while my
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�father, who was sport mad, looked after our leisure
activities. I can tell you which was more fun. I went to
convent school and, from an early age, teaching was
always going to be the option. I loved sport and the
thought of combining the two made bearable even having
to leave home to train as a teacher in Belfast."
Ann is modest about her sporting prowess. She is a
former canoeist and represented Ireland at the Munich
Olympics in 1972 while studying for her degree in
English and PE at the University ofUlster at Jordanstown
on the outskirts of Belfast.
Stephen, one of four children, came from the Donegall
Pass area of Belfast. It was and is a predominantly
Protestant area. "It was a respectable, working class
district", he says, "and my family were of good Protestant
stock. My father was a plater in the shipyard and an elder
in Townsend Street Presbyterian Church where we
worshipped every Sunday. Sunday was an austere kind
of day in our house as it was in many others across the
city in the 1950s and 1960s. A day for religious
observance. Dad was a hardworking and fair man and I'm
proud to say the best man I've ever known. "
After the local primary school and two years at Rosetta
primary school in the middle-class Mount Merrion area
of the city, Stephen went to Methodist College.
"I always had a sideline going to make a few bob while
I was growing up. I sold sticks round the doors for a long
time and even had three boys working for me before I
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�was eleven years of age. It was a great time until I went
to the grammar school. Suddenly, I found myself a
worlcing class boy at 'Methody' who preferred Soccer to
Rugby. It just wasn't the right place for me."
"My friends were the local lads I had grown up with in
our street and, although there were some Catholics living
in the area then, none of my friends was Catholic, just as
none of my friends was middle-class."
Stephen enjoyed a very successful 'second' business
venture during these years as the assistant of a local man
who provided flowers and foliage for retailers as far away
as England. "I was making great money", he says, "and
loving every minute of it. Travelling the country and
learning about business long before I ever went to
Belfast's College ofBusiness Studies."
Ann met Stephen at Jordanstown while they were both
in further education. "It was funny at first", she says,
"because, as a result of a misunderstanding of our
surnames, I thought Stephen was a Catholic and he
assumed that I was a Protestant. We were both wrong and
we didn't care. We got on great and started courting
seriously."
"Yes", says Stephen, "we knew fairly quickly how we
felt about each other. Finding out how other people felt
came a little more slowly as, initially, we didn't tell our
families anything."
"My mother knew that I was courting, as all mothers do",
says Ann. "Her reaction to it being with a Protestant was
67
�that of a worried parent. 'It won't be easy', she said,
'we'll support you, but maybe it would better all round
if you married one of your own'. My answer with all due
respect was, 'You don't pick them off the shelf'. That was
the end of that and, from then on, I had the full support
of my family."
Stephen's father had already given him the 'inquisition'
about his girlfriend, including the classic line, 'What foot
does she kick with?' "My parents were trying to protect
me and even my mother asked 'Who's going to turn?' I
explained that neither of us was going to turn, but that
we were going to get married. I was going to marry 'My
famous Fenian from Fermanagh' - so called because of
her Olympic achievement."
Getting married was to prove more complicated than
either of the couple anticipated.
"The local senior Catholic cleric made it clear that he
would not 'allow' us to be married in the main church of
St Michael 's in Enniskillen", says Ann. "That was our
family church and the natural choice for a bride from our
area, but he was adamant. He said, 'Those of my flock
who are heading in the wrong direction will not be given
the opportunity to parade their bad example'."
"Adamant? The man was as near to the Anti-Christ as I'll
ever want to meet", says Stephen. "He was rude, bigoted
and small minded and actually said, 'We don't allow
mixed marriages here'. He had the power and we had no
choice but to marry in the much smaller St Mary's
Church in the small village ofLisbellaw."
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�"We talked about the differences in culture at the start
and that was evident at the reception where the Catholics
seemed much more at home with the celebrations", says
Stephen. "Both our families were there to support us, but
my mother was very reluctant to dance with me, even
though it is traditional. I thought perhaps it was the
'mixed marriage' thing bothering her. She did get up
eventually, but stood like a ramrod throughout and was
relieved when the music finished . On asking her, I was
glad and sad to discover that it had nothing to do with
Ann and me. This was the first time my mother had ever
been on a dance floor. "
Ann, who taught in a Catholic school at the time of her
marriage, says, "The local clergy weren't happy about it
- one of ' their' teachers marrying a Protestant, but,
thankfully, I had already arranged to move jobs to a state
school."
"Making a mixed marriage is probably the hardest thing
I have ever done", says Stephen, "but it is definitely the
best thing. In life, you have to be true to yourself and
honest with others and if that means leaving your comfort
zone, then so be it. I would advise any couple to follow
that rule, not to hesitate and to go for it."
Ann and Step hen are not part of any organised religious
group. "We were put off by the bigoted attitudes and
negative experiences of people on both sides of the
divide", says Ann, "and Stephen, in particular, found the
Catholic Church unwelcoming, negative and entrenched,
but we compromised all the time to get what was right
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�for us and our family. We had our boys baptised Catholic,
but not confirmed, and sent them to state schools and they
have turned out a credit to us. I like to think we have
handed on a flame of tolerance as bright as any Olympic
one."
Stephen, Ann and their seven grandchildren
70
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Mixed Emotions is a collection containing 10 personal accounts / stories about mixed marriage (between Protestants and Catholics) in Northern Ireland. Nine of the accounts are based on joint interviews of the married couple. The accounts were published in book format in 2012.<br /><strong>McLaughlin, Paul.</strong> (2012). Mixed Emotions: Real stories of mixed marriage, (Northern Ireland Mixed Marriage Association; NIMMA). Belfast: NIMMA.
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Northern Ireland Mixed Marriage Association (NIMMA)
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Personal accounts / stories related to the issue of mixed marriage in Northern Ireland.
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Northern Ireland Mixed Marriage Association (NIMMA)
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2012
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Book
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English
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10
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ISBN 978-0-9571669-1-2
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8
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Yes
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2012
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Paul McLaughlin / NIMMA
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2012
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UP Standing storybook_Layout 1 04/12/2013 11:07 Page 12
A Safe Journey Home
‘James’
I was teaching in a State high school that was considered a Protestant
school for Protestant boys. The school was set in a part of Belfast which
was split into two main areas, controlled by different loyalist paramilitary
groups (the UDA and the UVF). During the early 1980s, shortly after the
hunger strikes when tensions were high, difficulties had arisen between
the two paramilitary groups. This often meant that young people from
one area were not welcome in the other. I had just finished my teaching
duties for the day, and was clearing up some homework books, when a
fifteen year old boy came to the door. I knew the boy well and he came
over to the desk.
“They’ve come to get me, Sir,” were his first words.
“Who has come?” I asked.
“The UVF, they’re waiting at the gates.”
I didn’t ask why as he’d only have had to think up some story, so I told
him to sit and maybe they would tire and go home. The boy lived in the
UDA controlled area and to get home he would normally have taken the
bus from in front of the school.
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After a while he went off to see if his tormentors had given up, but they
were patiently hanging about the bus stop. I asked if he wanted a lift
home - not something the pupils would have been keen to do. Their
“street credibility” would have taken a severe blow to be seen near
teachers! He hesitated, so I added that I could hide him in the back seat,
out of sight under a heavy waterproof coat. He must have been
desperate because he agreed and we proceeded to the staff car park. By
this time most of the others cars had left and he was able to jump into
the back seat, unseen by anyone, teacher or pupil. With the coat over
him, he was invisible, and the journey into his home territory was
uneventful. The task remaining was to get him out again without his
mates seeing him. In fact it proved easier than I expected. The side road
near his home was empty and he escaped with his credibility intact.
He didn’t come to school for a couple of days, and things seemed normal
when he did return. We never talked about it again and I suppose there
was no need. I didn’t feel there was any great risk to me. The guidelines
at the time certainly didn’t promote taking pupils home in your own car
under normal circumstances. These circumstances however were far
from normal and for me it was enough to do the thing that needed to be
done, and live with the outcome.
13
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Up Standing - Stories of courage from Northern Ireland (<em>collection</em>)
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A collection of 16 personal stories, published in book format and DVD, related to the Northern Ireland conflict.
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The Corrymeela Community in partnership with Facing History and Ourselves.
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The Corrymeela Community
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1 May 2013
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Document
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English
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Northern Ireland | 1968-2013
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<strong>Pettis, Sean. (ed.) </strong><span>(2013). Up Standing: Stories of Courage from Northern Ireland. 36. Belfast: The Corrymeela Press.</span>
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http://www.storiesofcourage.net/
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"‘UP Standing - Stories of courage from Northern Ireland’ features diverse accounts from people who stood up to violence, discrimination or prejudice in Northern Ireland. It provides a window into often untold stories of courage that individuals have shown in the context of a divided and often violent society." (Up Standing; 2013; back cover)
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25
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16
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9
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Yes (signed 13 November 2014)
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Belfast
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The Corrymeela Press
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2
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2013
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Up Standing
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UP Standing storybook_Layout 1 04/12/2013 11:09 Page 29
The Hardest
Word of All
‘Jane’
It was a largely Protestant
village- in fact 100% Protestant.
The town also had a reputation
for attacking people - I
remember so well that there
was a homophobic attack, a
racist attack and a sectarian
attack all in the one week.
So it was a town that was interested in driving people out and it seemed
to me that the community all around us were doing nothing. Their way
of dealing with it was to go inside, close the door, pull the curtains, and
have nothing to do with it - perhaps tut a little bit about it and say, “isn’t
that awful?”
So three of us decided that we would go to the community association
and see what was happening there. It became very clear to us that these
people had a grip on the community and everything was going to be
run in their way so any change was going to be difficult. There were
three of us ladies, three little grey haired ladies and we would go there
on a Tuesday night. We didn’t speak at all and each night we came out
from the meeting and we vowed never to go back again. Nevertheless,
we kept going back in spite of the fact that we hated it and felt uneasy.
We felt that we were simply just a presence if nothing else-a presence
that they had to deal with. It was not easy to say anything in those
meetings. For example, I remember one incident when I spoke up about
the situation with regard to flags in the village. Although there were in
fact not many flags in the village, there was one Union Flag flying very
obviously outside the Chapel. I mentioned this and asked, if there was
any chance that it could be brought down? That was not received well
at all and some people said it should be put further up the pole and
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others said that it was the flag of the country and they could fly it where
ever they wanted.
Often I suppose, I felt unsure of what people were thinking - there’s a
wee line in a hymn somewhere that talks about “can you stand the
hostile stare?” I felt there were hostile stares. Nevertheless, I had to get
involved in some way. I felt unsure that what I was doing was the right
way but I had to do something. It all comes from my belief in God and in
Christ. As far as I’m concerned God is an all-embracing person, and his
whole life was all about love, peace and reconciliation, particularly
reconciliation which is the hardest word of all and the hardest thing of
all to do.
30
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The Corrymeela Community in partnership with Facing History and Ourselves.
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The Corrymeela Community
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1 May 2013
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English
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Northern Ireland | 1968-2013
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"‘UP Standing - Stories of courage from Northern Ireland’ features diverse accounts from people who stood up to violence, discrimination or prejudice in Northern Ireland. It provides a window into often untold stories of courage that individuals have shown in the context of a divided and often violent society." (Up Standing; 2013; back cover)
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25
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16
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9
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Belfast
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2
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2013
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English
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Up Standing
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UP Standing storybook_Layout 1 04/12/2013 11:08 Page 27
The good
neighbour
‘Donna’
It was a typical estate where there was nothing going on
apart from drug dealing, paramilitary beatings, and paramilitary
shootings -they used to be regular occurrences. In the late 90s it was the
early days of the peace process and the Good Friday Agreement so
tensions in the estate were still very high. The police and the army land
rovers would patrol the estate and young thugs had nothing better to
do other than to stone them. That was just on an ordinary day before the
big rioting started. Come the evening the balaclavas came on, the milk
bottles were filled, walls were knocked down to provide ammunition to
throw at the police. It was just “open season” and crazy. I just wanted to
get home before dark, get everything set, the house locked up and stay
in.
I can’t for the life of me remember how exactly I found out about it. It
involved our neighbours- the husband was Protestant and his wife was
Catholic. Obviously Drumcree had happened and road blocks were
being put up. He had got a telephone call to his place of work to say –
“we know you are married to a Catholic; we don’t want Catholics in this
estate ; you’ve got until tonight to get out or we’re going to come and
burn you out.” He took that security risk very seriously and he literally
pulled up (at his house). He had two kids and he got the kids out and his
wife. He took the basic stuff and he came and knocked on my door and
told me what was happening. That was it -he’d packed his stuff and was
gone. I got to thinking- well if they are coming to petrol bomb their
house that’s maybe their
incident, but what happens if the
house next door catches fire? The
girl next door is partially deaf
and has two young kids. You
know their life is at risk and then
my house is the next one and I
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just thought -I’m not having my life, my neighbours’ lives or their house
being put at risk.
It was as simple as that. I went round to my mum and dad’s house and I
explained the situation. My dad gave me a fire extinguisher and I went
back home. I was not going to move and I thought if anybody came
anywhere near me or my neighbour’s house I will be putting the fire out
and that’s all there is to it. I stood in the lane behind the house and yes
there were people running up and down that alley way with petrol
bombs and they petrol bombed the police and army as they drove past.
I stood there determined that not one person would be touching that
house.
Every wee noise I was kind of like right this-this is it; this is me ready to
go. I stayed there for hours just going out the front, checking out the
front making sure everything was fine and then going round to the back
again. Then I’d check my son who was in bed to make sure he was
alright. I stayed to about 4 o’clock in the morning- it was starting to get
light so it was and the estate had quietened down and I kind of knew
that tensions had calmed a bit.
It didn’t cross my mind that I was in any danger. I was just looking out
for my neighbours despite their religion, despite anything else. They
were friends; they had two young kids; my child was living in my house
and well if I wasn’t going to do it, nobody else was willing to do it.
Somebody had to do something and I was that person.
28
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Northern Ireland | 1968-2013
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<strong>Pettis, Sean. (ed.) </strong><span>(2013). Up Standing: Stories of Courage from Northern Ireland. 36. Belfast: The Corrymeela Press.</span>
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http://www.storiesofcourage.net/
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"‘UP Standing - Stories of courage from Northern Ireland’ features diverse accounts from people who stood up to violence, discrimination or prejudice in Northern Ireland. It provides a window into often untold stories of courage that individuals have shown in the context of a divided and often violent society." (Up Standing; 2013; back cover)
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25
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16
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9
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'Donna'
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2013; Publication
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<span><span>'The Good Neighbour', </span>chapter, in, </span><strong>Pettis, Sean. (ed.) </strong><span>(2013). Up Standing: Stories of Courage from Northern Ireland. Belfast: The Corrymeela Press.<br /><strong>Also available at:</strong><br /><a href="http://www.storiesofcourage.net/" target="_blank">http://www.storiesofcourage.net/</a></span>
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Belfast
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The Corrymeela Press
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Published
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2
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2013
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English
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UP Standing storybook_Layout 1 04/12/2013 11:07 Page 10
A Lonely March
Mary Healy
We were the Armagh Peace
People and we had set up the
group to bring people together, to give them hope
through nonviolence. We had a great response to that.
I didn’t think at that time of the whole political thing you know. I was
aware that Catholics and Protestants worked together within the groups
I was involved in and I was also aware that some people may not have
liked my involvement.
As a result of my name being in the press I got a lot of phone calls and
they were phone calls I couldn’t cope with. The language was horriblesaying what they’d do with me if I went ahead with these meetings. It
came to a stage when my husband couldn’t cope with those phone calls
and I said I would be the only one to answer the phone. So I would just
lift the phone, listen to it and set it down again. I never thought very
much about who they were other than that they opposed the sense of
us trying to do something in a non-violent way. I presumed that they
were from my own denomination. Then one day I got a letter and it was
a life threatening letter. It was from a paramilitary group- they didn’t
specify who nor did they give names or anything but their last sentence
was something like, “you or a member of your family will be shot if you
go ahead with the proposed march.” (The Armagh Peace Group was
planning a march to raise awareness).
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I remember after getting the life-threatening letter, going up the stairs
and feeling that I’m alone in this now and praying about it and saying“my god, I give you my family, my home, my house, myself,” and I
suppose there was a release; a relief in that. So after that I didn’t lose any
sleep- there was a peace in that and that’s where I got my strength from.
There was one clergyman whom I had contact with and he said- “you
know you don’t talk about this letter; you don’t spread fear; you have to
hold on to this and go forward, without anybody around you knowing
what may or may not happen.”
The proposed march started in the centre of Armagh on Market St and
moved down round the town with people joining us at different parts.
There were huge numbers in the end. No opposition showed up on that
day that I can remember. We made speeches and sang songs which I
suppose gave people a short time of happiness if nothing else. They
weren’t afraid to be on their streets and that was important at that time.
I always think of the woman who said to me that we were all going to be
killed and I felt no we’re not and that we must give people hope.
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Out on the
Streets
Mary Kelly
Well basically what happened was that I saw kids
throwing stones and bottles and I thought -look at all the size of them ;
do they realise what’s going on ; do they realise the consequences if
bigger people got involved ; somebody could end up shot; some child
going for a bottle of milk could lose their life because of this. So that’s
when I went out into the street and thank God I had a couple of people
who also came out with me. At the beginning I was more or less just
out, as people would say, “slabbering.”
This was the start of the “interfaces” when a wee crowd would come up
from the Protestant end and a wee crowd from the Catholic end and it
was 6 of 1 and half a dozen of the other. I could stand back and see that
there were kids caught up in it. I wondered how I could get across there
to the “other side” to get to know some of the woman down there so I
would be able to say to them to keep their kids away and we on our side
would do the same. And then as it flourished and people got to know
you, they knew you were doing it for a purpose.
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I believed that every man in his
house had a responsibility to
know where his kids were and
what they were doing. We
approached lots of parents and
asked them if they knew where
their kids were and what they were doing? We
didn’t care what religion they were and warned them that it was time
they did know where they were and that they needed to go and get
them. My name got around – “she’s out there she is,” and the kids used
to shout –“here come Mary Kelly.“ You would have thought I was
carrying a machine gun.
Nobody really threatened me. You would have got the odd one
shouting out their neck –“who do you think you are?” I would say –“I
don’t think I’m anybody but I’m telling you we’re not having it; we’re not
letting this area go down the tube; I’ve seen too many areas going down
the tube and this one certainly isn’t. I’ve worked too hard buying my
house and I’m still paying for it and I’m not putting up with you or
anybody taking this away from me and that’s the way it’s gonna be.”
On reflection I would say I still wouldn’t let anybody do anything if I
thought somebody was in danger. It’s my nature; I can’t help myself; I
would have to get involved no matter who it would be if I thought that
somebody was deliberately abusing someone. If I was about I would
have to say-“here what’s going on?” I can’t help my nature. It’s not being
nosey. The way I look at it is if everybody took that stand- ‘well I wouldn’t
like that done to my child’ –then maybe we would have a better place.
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9
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UP Standing storybook_Layout 1 04/12/2013 11:09 Page 35
Working with threat
Jeff Maxwell
In the late 1980s I was a youth worker in North Belfast. I was working
with young people who were being knee-capped or were under the
threat of being punished and I suppose that’s where the interest came
around how to support young people when this was happening to
them. People were aware that punishment beatings were happening,
but not at that scale and it was something that the majority of people
didn’t really want to know about. There’s always been that
misconception that punishment beatings were about young people
who were joyriders - that was comfortable for communities because if
they were joy riders and young people doing drugs there was a reason
for punishments - almost a reaction of “well it’s terrible, but here, they
didn’t get it for nothing” If they had accepted that it was an injustice,
.
then there would have been an onus on them to do something about it.
In 1990 I started working with a number of peace groups dealing with
victims of paramilitary violence and in 1994 I commenced working for
Base 2 which is a crisis intervention service for individuals and families
who are at risk of paramilitary or community threat. It started as a
response to the very high levels of predominantly young males who
were being punished or put out of the country. I’ve since dealt with
about 5,000 cases where people have been under threat or at risk. The
job involves meeting with community/paramilitary contacts to verify if
the threat is genuine and what level of threat exists. We see if we can get
the threat lifted or if there is a possibility of a mediation to address the
issue. If it isn’t possible to get the threat lifted we’ll assist that person to
relocate, usually within Northern Ireland, but during
the height of the conflict, often out of
the country.
The very first time I was involved in
moving people out of the country was
two young lads who had been put
under threat. We’d arranged for them to
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go to England on the boat. We picked the two lads up, but they had to get
their belongings from their house - they couldn’t go back into the area
because they were under threat, so we went to one of the lad’s house to
meet his mother. She got a sports bag with a pair of jeans, a few jumpers
and a poster from the bedroom wall. She opened her purse and gave me
a tenner for him – it was the last note that she had in her purse. So you get
the young people out and then the reality sinks in of how on earth are
they going to survive on the other side? If you were to look at a group
within our society who are least capable of being lifted and taken
elsewhere, it’s that group. Here was a 17 year old fella going to a city to
start a new life with a sports bag, a poster and ten pounds. Six to Eight
months down the line he made approaches to come home and one of the
other paramilitary organisations claimed that young lad: “if you come
home and you join us - you’ll be all right they won’t be able to touch you”
.
So he came home, joined that organisation and ended up with a serious
conviction as a result of his involvement. So it cost him in the end. That
was the price of being able to return home because he couldn’t survive.
That was his only way back – to go and join another organisation and
ultimately that cost him 10 years of his life, but that’s how organisations
manipulated and used people.
It’s not a 9-5 job and it does impact on you outside
of work. On occasions when out in town, I have
been approached by individuals asking for support
to return to their areas or for mediation. Obviously
people are sitting at nearby tables and I’m thinking
people will assume I’m part of the paramilitary
organisation that’s keeping him out!
Things have progressed now – there isn’t the same
level of physical assaults and better mechanisms
for mediation. Communities are more open to
restorative processes. Back in the 1990s there
would have been higher levels of violence and risk of personal attack.
And you did live with that for a while and that certainly did put massive
strains on relationships and everything else. But most of society lived
with risk at that time.
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9
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2
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UP Standing storybook_Layout 1 04/12/2013 11:08 Page 23
Supporting Mixed
Marriages
Anne Odling-Smee
We came to Northern Ireland in 1970 as my
husband obtained a post here as a surgeon.
We are in a Mixed Marriage and have raised
our children within our two traditions, baptising
them alternately as Roman Catholic and Anglican (Church of Ireland).
In 1974 I was introduced to people who were starting a support group
for couples planning or in a mixed marriage. We had experienced a
certain amount of critical and indeed unchristian comment because
we had married outside of our tradition and so had the people with
whom we decided to become involved.
In the early days of the
Northern Ireland Mixed
Marriage Association (NIMMA),
as we called the support
group, we spent a lot of time
helping and supporting each
other and the couples who
made enquiries by letter or telephone. It was not safe to use our own
numbers as many people felt it wise to be ex-directory but Corrymeela
House sheltered us as a postal address and telephone enquiry point.
We were helping couples to understand the guidelines which the
churches were supposed to follow about the conduct of a mixed
marriage ceremony or baptism, but also to provide support when they
faced other obstacles. For example, we had a couple where the bride
was a Catholic and her family were very hostile to her marrying a
Protestant and so would have no part in the wedding. The ceremony was
arranged but where to celebrate it? NIMMA decided to provide the food
and the reception took place in the nearby home of hospitable
members.
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Another issue we worked on was housing. It was at a very troubled time
in Northern Ireland and a couple came to us who were living in a
Catholic housing estate, but the husband as a Protestant felt unsafe and
they needed to move. So we contacted our friends in the Association of
Inter Church Families in England. They found a clergyman who with the
help of his congregation found a house into which our couple could
move.
Housing has been a big issue, particularly if as a couple you did not have
enough money to choose where you lived. When people were
intimidated we could put them in touch with Housing Aid and other
organisations and we began to campaign for Housing without Labels,
but a big change needed to happen.
After the Good Friday Agreement the Housing Executive announced
that they were working out a strategy for Shared Social Housing as so
many of their estates were segregated and not safe for people in mixed
marriages, nor often for ethnic minority people. NIMMA was given a
place on the Advisory Board and so we were able to explain what our
couples needed and urgently. The housing application forms had three
categories ‘Catholic,’ ‘Protestant’ and ‘Other’ - but we are not other. We
are inter church, cross community and mixed. We bring two traditions to
the table. After a good discussion it was agreed that a category ‘Mixed’
would be added so that couples could apply for a house in a Shared
Neighbourhood, or in a Shared Development – housing without labels.
In NIMMA we know that as a group you can make structures change so
that those people who want to be together, not separate, can be so. We
think this is what being a Christian means. A great many people in
Churches and wider society
have done their best to help.
It just needs to become
infectious - NO LABELS.
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"‘UP Standing - Stories of courage from Northern Ireland’ features diverse accounts from people who stood up to violence, discrimination or prejudice in Northern Ireland. It provides a window into often untold stories of courage that individuals have shown in the context of a divided and often violent society." (Up Standing; 2013; back cover)
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16
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9
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2
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2013
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Up Standing