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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...
Just six months before the 1994 Scream theft, Hill had cracked the biggest art case in ages, the 1986 break-in at Russborough House near Dublin in which robbers made off with 11 pictures, including a precious Vermeer. In one of many cloak-and-dagger games the book recounts, Hill posed as the middleman for an Arab tycoon. He solves the Munch case by pretending to be a buyer for the wealthy J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, a role that allows him, as his work often does, to accessorize lavishly: seersucker suit, big bow tie, bigger Mercedes...
...classes and made Irish friends. But after four years in bureaucratic limbo, their new lives evaporated in March, when they were deported with their 5-year-old sons. The women got so little warning that their four other children were left behind, as immigration officers escorted the women to Dublin Airport before the older ones walked home from school. As the mothers scrounged to bribe police officers and pay hospital bills back in Nigeria - their 5-year-olds had never received vaccinations against African diseases - the older children went into hiding. "We expected that they would have been more civil...