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...Pauline Fitzpatrick also lost a brother in 1977. He was a member of the IRA in Belfast, one of many poor teenagers who joined paramilitary groups at the height of the Troubles. Fitzpatrick's parents were unaware her brother had joined the IRA until he was killed by the British army. Today, Fitzpatrick is a family support worker who counsels mostly Catholic families whose relatives were killed by the police or by British security forces. "Obviously money doesn't solve all these people's problems", says Fitzpatrick after the public meeting. "But it's an important recognition that they have...
...guide, entitled A Tale of 7 Cities, is written by academics from the London School of Economics and piles praise on seven European cities for their recovery following the collapse of vital industries toward the end of the 20th century. The cities - Sheffield and Belfast in the U.K., Bremen and Leipzig in Germany, Turin in Italy, Bilbao in Spain, and Saint-Etienne in France - were all industrial behemoths of the 19th century. Belfast and Bremen thrived through shipbuilding. Many of the world's knives, blades and cutlery came from Sheffield. Turin was famous for its car manufacturer Fiat. But from...
...returns have been eye-catching. Unemployment dropped in all but one of the towns between 1990 and 2005. After dropping since the 1970s, the populations of five of the cities began recovering between 2000 and 2005. (In Saint-Etienne and Belfast, the rate of decline at least slowed...
...both a setting and a mental state. Although he grew up on a farm and went to a country primary school, he won a scholarship to a Catholic grammar school in 1951, leaving the farm for good. He began teaching at St. John’s College in Belfast in 1963, where he began publishing poetry. Only one year after publishing his first volume of poetry, his second, “Death of a Naturalist,” received the E.C. Gregory award, given by the British Society of Authors to writers under 30, as well as the Geoffrey Faber...
...Delargy, 44 - the path to stardom seems ordained from above. Earlier this year Epic Records, a division of Sony, scoured Europe for clergymen with the chops to record a Latin Mass album. Word of mouth led them to the trio, who started singing together 35 years ago at a Belfast boarding school, and later performed at their seminary in Rome. After hearing a demo tape, Nick Raphael, the managing director of Epic in the U.K., raced to sign them. "Is any one of them a potential Elvis Presley or Frank Sinatra? Probably not," he says. "Do they have the potential...