Bokelskere.no

Both Church and State in the North ensured that the curriculum had a Protestant bias, with an exclusive emphasis on British history and a total absense of Irish culture.

While the press paraded and condemned this immoral pageant of grotesque rock 'n' roll deviance - the vulgar, hip-swinging Elvis Presley, the crippled, delinquent Virginian wildcat Gene Vincent, the unspeakable epicene Little Richard and the bigamist Jerry Lee Lewis whose cousin bride would later be exposed as a scandalous 13 years old - Morrison ignored the hysteria and found salvation in the music.

" Even in racialist South Africa, it was considered reasonable for white people to employ black people in their houses. Nowhere in the world was bigotry taken quite to such extravagant lenghts as it was in Northern Ireland. "