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Extract from the Strabane Travel Guides:
Present-day
STRABANE
, north of Omagh, is pretty grim and often traffic-congested. As a small Catholic enclave surrounded by largely Protestant-owned farmland and sitting right on the border it has suffered more than most from the Troubles. Economic depression was a consequence and at one time the town had the highest unemployment rate in the country. In the eighteenth century, however, Strabane was an important printing and publishing centre. John Dunlap emigrated from here and went on to print the broadsheets of the American Declaration of Independence in 1776, as well as the
Pennsylvanian Packet
, America's first da...
read the whole Strabane Travel Guides...
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