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Heaney was born on a farm in Northern Ireland in 1939. He graduated with first class honors from Queen's University in Belfast...
Protestant militants sent their contribution to the peace process in Ireland: a bomb on a Dublin-bound train from Belfast. Two women were injured when it partially exploded as the train stopped at its destination. The outlawed Ulster Volunteer Force claimed responsibility and in a statement warned that "Northern Ireland is still British and will not be coerced, forced or persuaded into a united Ireland." This is the third attack by Protestants since the cease-fire was announced a week ago. The I.R.A. has not avenged previous attacks, and the governments of Ireland and Great Britain appealed to the group...
...personal and strategic reasons -- even if some of the local commanders, mostly from rural districts in the North, remain unconvinced that it is time to lay down arms. As evidence of the I.R.A.'s change of heart, sources familiar with the insular and suspicious community of Catholic nationalists on Belfast's Falls Road cite the fact that Sinn Fein has begun working the pubs to begin explaining the need for some sort of cease-fire...
...Belfast a bomb has blown up a truck and the British army has sealed off much of the Catholic Falls Road area. So Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams arrived a bit late for his interview with TIME deputy managing editor John Stacks and London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. In discussion: the conditions for participation of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, in peace talks with the British...
...denies being a member. "It's illegal," he says. "I could get 10 years. But I am at pains not to distance myself from them. Even if I did, no one will believe me, and besides, I accept that I have a responsibility to the same constituency." Catholics in Belfast stick together for protection and support; Adams was formed by the ethos of a community under siege. At least four of his brothers have served time in prison; he has been shot and his home has been fire bombed...