Volume 21, Number 2 · February 21, 1974
An Ulster Fable
By Conor Cruise O'Brien
World Without End, Amen
by Jimmy Breslin
Viking, 329 pp., $5.95
The point is that a New York cop, Dermot Davey, visits Northern Ireland, and finds that there the Irish Catholics are the niggers. The cops are the British army and the Royal Ulster Constabulary. He identifies with these niggers, against these cops, and goes back to New York a better man. We see him, in an epilogue, performing an act of kindness for a black man.
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