The Northern Ireland conflict between Unionists and Nationalists led to the creation of one of the most successful post-conflict political transformations and the establishment of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Both as a consequence of institutional design and the deeply divided nature of the post-conflict society, this ethnic cleavage remains central to governance and political communications. A core political issue throughout the Assembly's lifespan has been that of victims and the past. Debates over the 'hierarchy of victims' remain highly salient, as the status of victimhood is a way in which individuals and groups can portray themselves in a position of virtue as opposed to the outgroup responsible for perpretrating harm. Using computational text analysis methods and a novel text scraper, I detect and classify victimhood narratives used in the Northern Ireland Assembly throughout its existence. I pay special attention to the use of exclusive victimhood narratives which portray the speaker's own ingroup as the victim and outgroups as the perpretrator exclusively. Provisional results indicate that legislators are much more likely to use exclusive victimhood narratives competitively, with a speech being almost twice as likely to contain a contradictory victimhood narrative if following a speech from across the ethnic divide that contains a victimhood narrative.Given the evidence that victimhood narratives are especially polarizing and effective in mobilization, understanding how and when legislators in deeply divided societies discuss victimhood could be an important way to assess progress or backsliding in reconcilliation.