Straws in the Wind*

Putting the Catholics back in their place “Catholic dogs jump like frogs, etc.” was one of those unbelievably witty chants that State School boys used to trot out, when especially bored. Little did we know that a few streets away, other bored boys, from the Catholic School, might be heard intoning the same, except that it was we Proddies who were the dogs or the frogs. Fact was, both groups of children lived in total ignorance of what each other believed, or why — or what the other did tha…

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