"They held all power in their own hands in order to protect themselves, in order to ensure that the minority in Northern Ireland, which was the Catholic population, never became a majority, and that meant widespread discrimination in housing, in jobs, and in voting rights. And of course, the worst example of that was the city of Derry, where I lived."

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