Word: dubliner
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...process. The reason: Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble's resignation as First Minister, due to take effect July 1 if the Irish Republican Army refused to disarm. Unless rescinded within six weeks, Trimble's resignation could cause the collapse of Northern Ireland's complex power-sharing arrangements. London and Dublin hope a new reform package will sway the I.R.A. to lay down its arms. THE NETHERLANDS Judgment Day Former Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic was delivered to the U.N. tribunal in the Hague for prosecution as a war criminal. His extradition coincided with the release of $1.28 billion to Yugoslavia. International...
...Pinter turned 70 last October, and a year of international tributes reaches its climax this month with a string of high-profile events. At London's New Ambassador's Theatre, the writer himself stars in a Gate Theatre of Dublin production of his One for the Road, a brutal study of torture and totalitarianism (July 3-7). Across the city, the Royal Court Theatre is performing a Pinter double-bill, Mountain Language and Ashes to Ashes. After London, the Royal Court show and One for the Road will travel to New York City with two other Gate productions, the double...
...They were a ragtag gang of young Dublin friends that grew up with dreams of stardom...
...think they always wanted to be famous and popular because they thought they were very interesting personalities," says longtime friend and band biographer B.P. Fallon, who knew the members during their days in Dublin in the late 1970s...
...Steve Stockman, a U2 biographer and Dublin resident, says the band had grown up in an "archaic Catholic country that was very sheltered from the outside world" in the 1970s. For that reason, "their first two albums were about themselves...