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Encyclopedia: Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Alliance expressly aimed to act as a bridge between the Protestant and Catholic sections of the community, with a secondary goal of attracting support from Northern Ireland's Jewish community and its small but steadily growing Asian (Chinese, Indian, Pakistani) population, the vast majority of whom are neither Catholic nor Protestant. |
 | | Alliance was seriously damaged by the IRA Hunger Strike of 1981, which deeply polarised Northern Ireland politics, and indirectly led to the emergence of Sinn Féin as a serious political force. |
 | | Communist Party of Ireland The Democratic Unionist Party is a hardline unionist party in Northern Ireland led by Ian Paisley. |
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