“My own household was completely without any sectarian energy… Nevertheless the sense of difference was deeply there, it was extremely subtle, I mean it was just a gram of psychological difference in the weighting of the way people behaved with each other. When shall we say a Protestant neighbour came to the door to collect milk, a fid delicacy of decorum, more decorum observed. And yet that melodrama ties us at even.”
- Seamus Heaney (here)