Word: belfast
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Moreover, his experiences travelling around the globe, from Belfast to Soweto to Albuquerque, have given Coles what he describes as a "wisdom." Speaking of the people he describes in his work The Old Ones of New Mexico, Coles recalls, "Many times my wife and I would sit with some of these elders in those small villages and think to ourselves, Lord if we could only have some of their thoughtfulness and goodhumor and stoic endurance and decency, then we'd be doing well...
...their normal experience. Many of them, in the words of Drum magazine editor Barney Cohen, are capable of killing at the drop of a match. They have developed a youth culture of alienation and intolerance that may be more destructive, in its sheer scale, than anything seen in Beirut, Belfast or the Gaza Strip...
REMEMBRANCE. Amid the turmoil of Belfast, two elderly people meet at a cemetery and form a Protestant-Catholic romance -- tender and proper and doomed by "the troubles." Quiet and exquisitely acted, this touching off- Broadway drama features the lovable Malachy McCourt and the unforgettable Aideen O'Kelly, perhaps the finest unsung actress in North America...
...Ireland's church and state both received a shock. A woman who has battled Roman Catholic teaching on contraception, divorce and homosexuality was elected President, a largely ceremonial position. And the Vatican appointed Cahal Daly, a fierce critic of the Irish Republican Army, as Primate of All-Ireland. The Belfast-based bishop's elevation pleased politicians and religious leaders in Ulster and London, where there is hope that his outspoken condemnations of violence might help quell sectarian terrorism...
Barricading streets, burning cars and tossing petrol bombs are mostly summer events, when there are anniversaries to commemorate, school is out and nights are warm. It's a time when the air of Belfast is thin with the promise of excitement, and mothers pray for rain. "The lads don't go out and fight as much when it's raining," says Betty, 33. Four of her five brothers have done time, and her three sons are all adept at making petrol bombs. Even the six- year-old, whose forehead is blackened by a burn mark he got while making...