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At week's end the movement staged the last in a series of symbolic rallies —a climactic gathering on the banks of the river Boyne in Eire. There, in 1690, William of Orange defeated the Catholic King James, assuring Protestant dominion over Ulster. If Williams, Corrigan and McKeown could find ways to ease Ulster's three centuries of communal hatred, they may be back in Oslo again next year—to receive the Nobel Peace Prize itself.
But meanwhile, as Yeats had it, "peace comes dropping slow." Last week gunmen wounded four men outside a Catholic church in Belfast.
* For which no acceptable candidate was found by the February deadline—six months before Ulster's peace movement began.