Talk:Belfast confetti
Absolute nonsense.
"Belfast confetti" long predates the IRA and their bombs. The term was first used in the 1890s in the context of Protestant shipyard workers attacking Catholics by pelting them with scrap metal and large iron rivets as missiles.
For some examples, see:
Ciarán Carson's own description at http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/schools/11_16/poetry/war.shtml
Further concrete doumentation of the original and correct definition of "Belfast confetti" can be found at:
Page 243, Northern Ireland: a report on the conflict, by the London Sunday Times Insight Team, 1972
Page 38, A Past Apart, by Anthony C. Hepburn, Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996
Page 110, Peace in Their Time, by Ruth Weiss, IB Tauris, 2000
Page 8, Too long a sacrifice: life and death in Northern Ireland since 1969, by Jack Holland, University of Michigan, 1981
Page 47, Mutiny at the Curragh, by Alfred Patrick Ryan, MacMillan, 1956
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