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...shadow that fell across O'Casey's Dublin during the 1920s has become the specter that terrorizes contemporary Ulster. Sections of Londonderry and Belfast are as desolated as London during the blitz, and the scarred faces of empty, bombed-out buildings are pockmarked from gunfire. Streets are blockaded by ganglia-like stretches of barbed wire and by "antiterrorist ramps"?thick bands of bitumen or concrete nine inches high that force traffic to slow to a crawl. On the red brick walls surrounding vacant lots, the children of Belfast?perhaps the most tragic victims of the war?have scrawled afresh...
...Dunphy is just that. A native of Dublin, he earned a law degree at Oxford, then got his M.B.A. at Harvard. In the summer between his two years there, he traveled round the country, picking up such disparate jobs as janitor and private detective. Knocking about made him aware of the plight of minority groups in America, and once he established himself he decided to help out in the way he knew best. As he puts it: "What better thing can I do as a businessman than to communicate to others the skills and values which will contribute...
Died. General Richard Mulcahy, 85, Irish soldier-politician and perennial foe of Eamon de Valera; in Dublin. Mulcahy dropped his medical studies to fight alongside De Valera during the 1916 Easter Rebellion. When the British recognized the Irish Free State as a dominion five years later, the austere teetotaler led the national forces that crushed De Valera's still dissatisfied Irish Republican Army in a bloody civil war. Mulcahy served in several governments before and after Ireland gained full independence. After his old rival became President in 1932, Mulcahy took the reins of the opposition Fine Gael Party...
...story Post Office Tower, London's tallest building. The blast caused no injuries but sent glass and masonry crashing almost 500 feet to the street. A telephone caller claimed that the explosion had been set off by a London faction of the Irish Republican Army (I.R.A. leaders in Dublin denied responsibility) and that "the next one will be the Victoria Tower [of Parliament...
...appointed Emperor, as Nancy Mitford has wryly suggested. Ireland, for example, which will vote on entry in a referendum next spring and which has already won assurance that important EEC documents will be translated into Gaelic, sees the Common Market as a way of finally escaping from British domination. Dublin may well look to Paris for leadership...