I love stories like the one below (in bold and italics) about our troubled little province.   It make the point wonderfully, that nothing can be framed in the black and white terms that either the Unionists or Nationalists love.   This particular episode relates to a bigoted, blinkered view that unfortunately still seems to hold sway in some protestant/ unionist circles.   It is a great pity in all the years of schooling that each of us endures, that we cannot be taught to ask a few simple questions about some of the things our culture presents as the truth.   I love too that the person who paid for the painting was Craig, a man who openly boasted that he did not, and would not, employ a Catholic. The text comes from a booklet of reminisces called “My Bangor from the 1890’s”, published 1975 by our local newspaper, The County Down Spectator ( https://countydownspectator.co.uk/ ).   It was written by C.F. Milliken, and I have included a picture of the i...