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...friends, the baby-faced Gerard Steenson, 29, a founder of the terrorist Irish National Liberation Army, was known as "Pretty Boy." But when he was buried in Belfast last week, some recalled his other nickname: "Dr. Death." Steenson, gunned down as he and an associate drove through West Belfast, had been accused of killing at least half a dozen people over the past decade...
Remembrance takes place in war-torn Belfast, a setting that would seem to be full of ripe dramatic material about the effect of war on families. Unfortunately, the family relationships in Reid's 1984 play range from the incredibly bland to the inexplicably volatile...
...rumble of drums, the piping of flutes echoed through the warm summer twilight. Hundreds upon hundreds of men in bowler hats and orange sashes marched through the north of Belfast, their bright silken banners gilded by the setting sun. As the Sunday-suited men strode past, to the tune of their stirring ancestral anthem, The Sash, a British army helicopter hovered overhead and riot police stood guard before the 20-ft.-high screens they had just erected. Later that evening, 22 miles away, another group of men in tribal orange filed through the village of Downpatrick and gathered...
...agreement. The Republic's decision two weeks ago to continue its ban on divorce only confirmed a Protestant sense of distance from their neighbors to the south. "There is nothing that attracts me toward the Irish Republic," complains Billy Stevenson, chairman of the Castlereagh Ulster Club in east Belfast. "The present situation under the Anglo-Irish agreement is like living with in-laws who don't want...
Television might be a more dangerous medium if its fondness for violent action always produced a hot response in its watchers. Sometimes it does: the picture of police dogs in Alabama changed history. But repeated scenes of snipers ducking around doorways in Belfast eventually generate a feeling that this is an interminable quarrel. The endless car bombings in Beirut, the sight of young armed soldiers, arouse the feeling that we just do not belong in Lebanon...