Icons dominate life everywhere on the island of Ireland.
It appears on the banknotes, and for generations it was a symbol of protestant education. A copy of Oxford's Magdalen College, the Lanyon Building is dominated by a forbidding portcullis. But symbols are changing in Northern Ireland. The Lanyon Building no longer stands for a narrow sectarian vision of academic achievement. In fact, Professor George Bain, Queen's vice chancellor, sees the university primarily in global terms.