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Author James D. Atwater, a TIME associate editor who has lived in London and patrolled with bomb-disposal units in Belfast, has shadowed this gritty, convincing thriller in shades of gray. He knows the variegated forms of middle age, of working-class London, of fear: "A thin spiral of smoke was curling up from one corner of the top. He could smell the almond scent. 'You son of a bitch,' said Thomas, looking straight down into the box . . . The hour hand was nearly touching the nipple of metal." Atwater's stage machinery creaks a bit as Thomas...
Before the royal yacht Britannia sailed through the morning mist of Belfast Lough, violence had already flared up. In Londonderry, the I.R.A. Provisionals claimed credit for a sniper's wounding of two soldiers, while in another Provo attack, a Belfast police reservist was shot in the leg and shoulder. Later, tensions mounted dramatically when a teen-age Catholic boy was shot and killed by an army patrol after he twice refused an order to stop throwing gasoline bombs into a lumberyard. The I.R.A. retaliated by shooting down a soldier guarding a bomb-disposal unit. The bloodshed, said an I.R.A...
Bloomsday for the election: June 16, 1904, was the date on which the events in James Joyce's Ulysses took place. The fact that Fianna Fáil-the party of Eamon de Valera and other Independence heroes-returned to power delighted Irish republicans. There were worries in Belfast and London that Lynch's party was a bit soft on the Irish Republican Army, and that a Fianna Fáil government would repolarize the situation in Ulster by stirring up suspicions among its Protestant majority. Fianna Fáil favors eventual withdrawal of British forces from Northern...
...Morrison: A Period of Transition (Warner Bros.). On his first album in three years, Morrison is neither the rock 'n' roller of his early Belfast days, nor the melismatic improviser he has been through much of the 1970s. A Period of Transition leans toward streetgritty rhythm and blues, and Morrison is backed up by New Orleans Gumbo Rocker Mac ("Dr. John") Rebennack, who is the album's keyboard player and coproducer. Somewhat weakened by repetitiveness (one bit of business is repeated 38 times), the record has little meat but plenty of motion...
Paisley fell far short of his vow to bring Belfast's economy to its knees. Earlier in the week he had told his followers, "I am only remaining in politics to see this thing through. If it fails, then my voice will no longer be heard." He may be right about that. For once, Northern Irelanders seemed to have demonstrated, even to themselves, that militant sectarian zealots can be defied. An aide to Roy Mason predicted that the strike's failure "could be a watershed" in the province's bloody history...