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BRENDAN BEHAN Dublin...
...million) has almost no other known resources of fuel, it must satisfy 65% of its energy needs with imported oil. For more than a decade, Ireland has been green with envy over Britain's North Sea petroleum windfall and has searched vainly for its own bonanza. Lately, though, Dublin has been awash in a gusher of speculation about a discovery in the Celtic Sea, which separates Ireland and Britain. Last week the rumors proved to be valid. Gulf Oil acknowledged that a test well only 20 miles south of the Waterford coast had produced a flow that suggests...
...best some of them previously published in The Atlantic, convey a deep understanding of life in the small farming hollows, coal mines and river towns of his native West Virginia hills. He evokes on a smaller scale, a local world as nuanced and distinctive as the Dublin of Joyce's Dubliners: the region itself with its hills, rivers, fogs, and wildlife, is a vital presence. Pancake constantly includes owls, opossums, and snakes, ironweed and sycamores: even buried bones and fossils in describing the lives he portrays. The situations of his strong. reticent, and trapped characters embody the unique milieu...
...after dark in the County Kildare countryside 30 miles southwest of Dublin, and Jim Fitzgerald's family had just finished dinner when there was a knock at the door. In burst five or more men, all masked and waving guns. Fitzgerald's wife and five of his children were herded together and locked in a back room. Fitzgerald, 55, head groom at nearby Ballymany Thoroughbred stud farm, was ordered to lead the gunmen to the stable of a certain five-year-old bay stallion...
...profits have been shrinking because of Japanese competition and the slowdown in capital spending. Last year company officials decided that they had to cut capacity and modernize their aging factories. After winning $60 million in grants and tax abatements from the Irish government to open a plant in County Dublin, they decided to try some arm-twisting Stateside. Shunning pretense, Hyster applied for grants from five states where it already operates plants. The company warned that unless the states could come up with enough money, it might close some facilities...