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...could ease both historic and recent tensions in Northern Ireland. The more dramatic came from Maze Prison, where at week's end Irish Republican militants announced that they were giving up their seven-month campaign of fasting that has left ten dead since it began last March. In Dublin, Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald launched a bold initiative to change the constitution of the Irish Republic in ways that would make unification of the divided island more conceivable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland: The Strike Ends | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

...wasn't until the end of the war, in 1946, that Kelleher made his first trip to the island he had been studying for years. He spent six months in Ireland, first rooming in a Dublin club and meeting many of the people "I'd always wanted to know," and then cycling throughout both the North and the South. "You could do it at that time in a way you couldn't now--there were no tourists, and almost no traffic. And though the accomodations were often far from what the Tourist Board would recommend, it was a terrific...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Love of the Irish | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...reason for the change was Ireland's indignation about the riots that had exploded in Dublin the previous Saturday when 15,000 demonstrators, organized by I.R.A. supporters, marched on the British Embassy. Some 500 of the protesters engaged in pitched battles with the police. In the melee, the fiercest confrontation in the republic since the 1920s, about 200 civilians and policemen were injured, and the damage to property amounted to more than $2 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Ireland: Disaffection | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

There was also opposition last week to a march by some 3,000 supporters of the hunger strikers from Newry to Dublin, 70 miles away. Reported Justice Minister James Mitchell: "We have received thousands of calls and messages and letters about Saturday's proposed march, and 98% of them have called upon us to ban it." Nonetheless, the Irish government decided to let the march go on, while ordering in troops to guard against any possible violence. As it happened, there was none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Ireland: Disaffection | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...hunger strike in Northern Ireland's Maze Prison. The election cast a shadow over Anglo-Irish relations, particularly since both countries have been seeking ways to work toward a settlement in Ulster. The Agnew-Doherty issue could draw the Republic deeper into Northern Ireland's sectarian strife. Dublin had managed to keep its distance from the furor that followed the death of Bobby Sands, a member of the British Parliament, last month. I.R.A. strategists intend to deny that luxury in the future. Said one: "Will the Irish parliament remain silent, as the British one did, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland: A House Divided | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

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