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...We’re very much an Irish pub compared to any other Irish pub in the area,” said Griffin, a native of Dublin. He is banking on creating an ambience that will be part Irish, part Harvardian, to distinguish Tommy Doyles from its Square competition...
...Pubs in Ireland, specifically around the Dublin area, are extremely expensive and generally not worth it, unless you have unlimited access to money. So in some ways pub life is slowly dying here,” James A. Powers ’08, who is from Greystones, Ireland, wrote in an e-mail. “Providing the new pub in Harvard is not so picky on carding, it will be welcome...
Nobody said it was going to be easy. The controversial Anglo-Irish accord, signed two weeks ago by Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and Garret FitzGerald, gave the Dublin government a limited voice in the affairs of the British province of Northern Ireland for the first time. Last week, though the agreement had received solid support in both the British and Irish parliaments, it was harshly attacked by extremists on both sides...
Geldof's social evangelism began early. As a teenager in Dublin, he helped start a chapter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and did community work because "I was never into sports." But his success at galvanizing a socially somnolent rock community surprised even the organizer. "It went beyond Woodstock," he says. "It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. Live Aid was activity as opposed to activism. We made giving exciting...
...march began as a peaceful protest against the two-month-old agreement between Britain and Ireland, which grants Dublin a say in Northern Ireland's affairs. But after 2,500 Protestants arrived at the gates of Maryfield House, the headquarters of the Anglo-Irish secretariat outside Belfast, the march became a melee. Toughs hurled paving stones at Royal Ulster constabulary, injuring 26 officers. Unionist leaders denounced the violence but warned of a "complete collapse of government here" if Britain did not end the accord...