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Word: andersontown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1974-1974
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Dolours and Marion are daughters of a former I.R. A. officer who once tunneled his way out of a Londonderry prison. The sisters were raised amid the revolutionary passions of Belfast's working-class Andersontown district, an I.R.A. stronghold. As teenagers, they shared a liking for the Beatles and the Rolling Stones as well as for Irish folk dances. Both girls were and are devout Roman Catholics: a notebook that Dolours was carrying when she was arrested for the London bombings contained notes on the Virgin Mary along with details about her I.R.A. contacts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Ulster's Price Sisters: Breaking the Long Fast | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

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