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...addition to the extreme nationalists, Lynch must also contend with the reasoned criticism of such political opponents as Conor Cruise O'Brien, the scholar and diplomat who is now a Labor Party M.P. in Dublin. Last week O'Brien published in the Irish Times an eloquent open letter to New York Lawyer-Politician Paul O'Dwyer, urging him not to campaign for the I.R.A. in the U.S. Wrote O'Brien: "Don't believe the I.R.A. if they tell you the Irish people are behind them. I was elected with mainly a working-class vote...
...holy war. Ulstermen themselves have often argued that the real issue is not religion but a complex combination of economics (an entrenched Protestant majority preserving its job preferences over a poorer Catholic minority) and political allegiance (to the British Crown or to a reunited Ireland). But as Irish Scholar Conor Cruise O'Brien, a leader of the Irish Labor Party, once observed, such arguments seem mostly designed to serve an Ulsterman's need for a particular image of himself and his nation. That image, "if not altogether respectable, is at least modern: 'We are not really living...
...team is led by sophomores Peter Bennett and Joe O'Conor and junior Howie Coreoran. Sophomore Rick Powell is the team's fourth man. This squad is backed up by a six-man JV team and five graduate student players...
...Scan The Deputy, an original Rolf Hochhuth dirty history postcard. Want to see whites do something obscene to a Negro heavyweight champion? Scan The Great White Hope, an original Howard Sackler dirty history postcard. The theatrical alleys are getting a trifle crowded with these peddlers, but Ireland's Conor Cruise O'Brien obviously thinks there is room for one more. He has a marvelous name for a dramatist, and it is a far, far better line than any in his play, Murderous Angels...
...Army who is blackmailed into spying for the Russians. The "drag ball" scene that opens the second act has been a titillating conversation piece ever since the play premiered in London in 1965. Murderous Angels probes the motives and characters of Patrice Lumumba and Dag Hammarskjold as seen by Conor Cruise O'Brien, who was himself in the Congo as head of U.N. operations in Katanga...