... Widgery was that a public outrage followed from the Irish people. Such was the scale of the outcry that followed that the irate crowd burned down the British embassy in Merrion Square, Dublin. Another consequence was that the Anglo-Irish relations hit one of their lowest ebbs, with the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Patrick Hillery, going especially to the United Nations ... which caused major discrimmination issues of the basis of cultural background. When the army had first arrived they had been welcomed by Nationalists and Catholics as their protectors from a paramilitary unit a...

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