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...silver-haired Prime Ministers put their proposals on the table in Belfast last week as little more than a reasonable next step. No announcement of a done deal. No imposition of an agreement. No threats. Just an invitation to all the political groups involved in the vicious struggle between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland to sit down somewhere and talk. Even the name of the document was self-effacing: Frameworks for the Future: a shared understanding between the British and Irish governments to assist discussion and negotiations involving the Northern Ireland parties. ``Read it, study it, think about...
Apparently Simple Minds learned a thing or two from the likes of U2 and the Cranberries during their three years of soul-searching. Gone is the lush, synthesized sound of their previous hits, such as "Alive and Kicking" or "Belfast Child." Filling out the arrangements with more guitar work and complex rhythms, the newer, more astringent style strikes the listener, whereas before it merely made for harmless listening. Vocalist Jim Kerr and guitarist Charlie Burchill self-consciously acknowledge this change in their opening track, "She's A River...
LONDON: Deadly Joyride An appeal by a British soldier convicted of murder while on active duty in Northern Ireland has sparked a fierce debate. Four years ago, Private Lee Clegg and other paratroopers fired on a car that had failed to stop at a West Belfast checkpoint. The driver, Martin Peake, 17, and a passenger, Karen Reilly, 18--joyriders, rather than I.R.A. terrorists -- were killed. In 1993 a judge convicted Clegg of murder on the grounds that he fired the bullet that killed Reilly after the car had passed the checkpoint and the soldiers were no longer in danger...
...members of a gang with links to the Irish Republican Army were being held in connection with a killing that took place during a robbery of a post office facility in Newry, 30 miles south of Belfast. The murder of a postal clerk was the first since the I.R.A. announced a cease-fire in September. It caused the Irish government to rescind plans for the early release of I.R.A. prisoners. Sinn Fein said the killing was tragic and wrong...
Household names on the marquee do not, of course, guarantee dramatic splendor inside. The Branagh play is a trifle that searches for nightmare poetry in "plain old American-Irish English" and for political significance in the story of a Belfast punk (Paul Ronan) obsessed by the grit and grace of Jimmy Cagney. It finds none of the above, lost as it is in a muddle of moralizing and attitudinizing. But it shares a potent theme with the season's cannier off-Broadway ventures: that star worship is a virus, carried by the popular media and infecting anyone...