Twenty-five years in the past, Britain and Eire signed the Good Friday Settlement, ending a long time of bloodshed referred to as the Troubles. On the stroke of a pen, Northern Eire turned one of many world’s most bold experiments in the way to reconcile a deeply divided society.
Even now, remnants of separation between Protestant and Catholic Northern Eire linger: the boundaries between neighborhoods referred to as peace partitions; murals with photos of Queen Elizabeth II or Irish republican heroes; the Union…