Word: dublin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joined the fast, and thousands of supporters staged protest marches and torchlight rallies in Catholic districts of Belfast and Londonderry. On Saturday, nearly 25,000 demonstrators, led by Catholic Activist Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, a onetime member of Britain's Parliament from Ulster, turned out for a march in Dublin. But the British government remained unmoved. "If those people continue with their hunger strike, it will have no effect whatsoever," said Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. "It will just take their own lives, for which I will be profoundly sorry, because I think it's a ridiculous thing...
Death, of course, is life's largest irony. Mortality tolled through Leonard's best-known play, "Da "; in Summer it rustles through the sunlit grass on a verdant hilltop near Dublin. The year is 1968, and three middle-aged couples rendezvous for a picnic. Food, wine, gossip and nostalgic reminiscences mask tiny tremors of apprehension and isolation...
...between ambush attacks or, lately, between raids on banks in the Irish Republic to fatten depleted coffers. Partly as a result of the bank raids, the Republic has built up its own surveillance of the border region. In early September Prime Minister Charles Haughey's government announced that Dublin will spend $240 million to deploy more helicopters and spotter aircraft, equip special detective teams with Israeli UZI submachine guns, use unmarked police cars and-shades of The Informer-pay more money for inside tipoffs...
Leaders of the predominantly Catholic Republic of Ireland, ever faithful to their goal of Irish unity, also reacted cautiously to the limited home-rule plan. An official statement from Dublin welcomed the discussion of "possible solutions" but insisted on "closer political cooperation between the British and Irish governments" on the Ulster question. Some measure of cooperation actually began in May, when Ireland's Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Charles Haughey had a cordial meeting with Thatcher, at which the two leaders agreed to hold regular consultations. At that time, Haughey insisted that the Republic did not seek to annex...
...Dublin intelligence sources claim that quiescent Protestant guerrilla groups are now back in operation. Indeed, Protestant "death squads" are suspected in the separate killings last month of two of Ulster's prominent Republican sympathizers, Landowner-Politician John Turnly, 44, and Queen's University Lecturer Miriam Daly...