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...spent 10 months on the old sod, sipping Guinness in drafty pubs and listening to people who often sound as if they had just strolled in from a Brian Friel play. Steeling herself for the unknown, Mahoney nervously checks out a lesbians-only night at a seedy Dublin bar. (Asked if she's gay, she lies and says yes.) She also attends a cell meeting of the fanatically Catholic Legion of Mary. Espied by the legionnaires as a potential recruit, she is asked to help out at a catechism class for a gaggle of foulmouthed, streetwise little hoydens, whose recitation...
...country's first woman President, Mary Robinson; poet Eavan Boland; and abortion-rights activist Ruth Riddick, who inspired the book's enigmatic title. (One conservative Catholic lady is quoted as saying of Riddick and her ilk: "Oh, those women! Those women encourage whoredom in Kimmage" -- a lower-class Dublin neighborhood...
...DEATH OF CHILdren. Yet delicate sprouts of hope seem to have come from the tragic murders of Tim Parry, 12, and Johnathan Ball, 3, caught two weeks ago in a vicious Irish Republican Army terrorist bomb blast that tore through a British shopping mall. Susan McHugh, a Dublin mother of two, was so angered by the violence, which claimed six more lives last week, that she has started a new movement to search for peace in Northern Ireland. Hundreds of concerned people turned out for an organizing meeting last Wednesday. McHugh said the I.R.A. "does not kill in the name...
...indirectly, that helped the new trend develop. Several of the groups on Straight Outta Ireland got career boosts by having singles released on labels sponsored by U2. "Bands like U2 and Sinead helped give people a sense of pride and potential," says Niall Stokes, editor of Hot Press, a Dublin music magazine. "U2 is revered, but the Irish are cynical by nature. They see ((U2 lead singer)) Bono and think, If that ridiculous idiot can do it, then...
Griffith has frequently put her music in the service of social causes. She has visited the UNICEF in Dublin, Ireland, where she often performs and worked with the National Coalition for the Homeless...