Word: bundoran
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...Ireland's 391-man military force from U.N. peace-keeping duties in Cyprus to bolster patrols trying to prevent the I.R.A. from slipping back and forth across the Ulster border. Irish police arrested three I.R.A. suspects, on charges of illegally possessing arms and ammunition, at their homes in Bundoran, a favorite frontier sanctuary of gunmen. One of them was Joseph O'Neill, a prominent I.R.A. political leader...
...response to the arrests was a series of fierce riots of I.R.A. sympathizers in Bundoran and nearby Ballyshannon. The protesters in Bundoran threw up barricades blocking traffic and attempted to break into the courthouse after the hearing. Gangs of youths in Ballyshannon stoned the gardai (police), and more than 100 additional police had to be brought in to deal with at least 500 protesters. With more arrests expected, the I.R.A. Provisionals charged that Lynch "has acted under British pressure" and warned that they would put up "strong resistance" to any further "collaboration...
...19th Century observer reported Inishmurray poteen flowing "extensively over the whole seaboard from Sligo to Bundoran and even to a considerable distance inland." In 1893, a detachment of Royal Irish constabulary was quartered there for revenue duty, but in later years, news of police visits usually reached King Michael in time for the great stone jugs of poteen to be hidden in the island's shallow lake. Once sentenced to pay a ?50 fine or spend six months in jail for poteen-making, King Michael said: "I would have paid ?10, but they would not make...
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