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Word: drogheda (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everybody wants full freedom in all areas of human behavior and new models of morality are being proposed in the name of would-be freedom." After the Mass, the Pope flew by helicopter to Drogheda, a small manufacturing town 30 miles north of Dublin. The town is part of the northern ecclesiastical province of Armagh, which includes Ulster. At Drogheda, he made an impassioned plea for an end to the violence that has long plagued Northern Ireland and appealed to Ulster's Protestants to "see in me a friend and a brother in Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: John Paul's Triumphant Tour | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

Perks and Palaces. As between Cavaliers and Roundheads, this is a portrait of Cromwell that no Roundhead sympathizer could fault. When Cromwell puts a thousand innocent men, women, children and priests to the sword at Drogheda, the author tells us he was in a fit of passion. Did he smash and savage churches in England? Well, choirs and pageantry and opulent vestments outraged his Puritan conscience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Begone, You Rogues | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

...also was defeated by Beacon Hill, the Business School, and the Drogheda, Ireland Rugby Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Ruggers Edge Harvard, 12-4 | 11/29/1972 | See Source »

...brought the Crimson's record up to two and five. The other victory came against the Portsmouth rugby club, 16-0, early in the season. Of the losses, only two teams beat them badly, Drogheda and Cornell by scores of 35-0. The others were decided by five points of less...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Rugby A's Edge Old Maroon | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

...Drogheda team has sponsored its own tour of the United States, scheduling matches against eastern clubs including Yale, from October 2 through October...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drogheda Triumphs, 35-0 | 10/11/1972 | See Source »

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