This article was published in 1998 on a journal in Northern Ireland. The author, Bernard Meares, has lived in Trieste for some years, as a translator of the CERN Institute of Geneva. From his external view of the facts about the Slovene minority in Trieste, it is a very interesting article, an objective contribution about the facts concerning the Slovene minority. I've met him in the Svevo's caffee in Trieste (now Caffè Stella Polare) in 1997 and I was enchanted about his knowledge about our minority. He told me how he stood in Opicina/Opcine, in a house with Slovene and Italian people and how he had analyzed both the good and unusual relations about the two different speaking peoples. This publishing is for me a great honour, a contribute for my town for continuing the good relations not only between the Italian and Slovene people living in Trieste, but also with the people of other languages and cultural background that are living in our multiethnical town. In this times, with ethnical wars in progress, I believe this is very, very important. Thanks a lot, Bernard. Your friend, Miran Pecenik.   >>>