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...splintered country convinced O'Hanlon "that the Irish had become the most interesting subjects for anyone who wanted to understand and write about the flabby human condition in the last part of the century of industrial man." In 1972-73, he set up temporary residence in "dear, dirty Dublin," listening, looking and trying to remember why he left home in the first place...
...says that he left Dublin because it was a sleepy, provincial town. But the city's recent building boom and accelerated pace please him even less. When such contradictions occur, the reader may feel like an unwilling spectator at a family squabble...
Author O'Hanlon fulminates be cause he clearly loves his former coun trymen and women. He is too much the Irishman himself not to revel in the ver bal excitement of Dublin life and its "maddening, entertaining stew of provincial chauvinism." Inevitably, his book is crammed with old-chestnut anecdotes, pub gossip "laced with the in toxicating ingredient of malice," and sharp observations. Most of these, also inevitably, take a dying fall: the slipshod car-assembly center in Cork that turns out "lemons (or limes)"; those ash trays proudly bearing the Gaelic legend, Deanta sa tSeapain (Made in Japan...
...Dublin, the government proposed a new criminal-law bill that, amazingly enough, provides for trial in Ireland of any person charged with terrorist offenses in Ulster or elsewhere in the United Kingdom. The bill is chiefly designed to discourage the I.R.A. from using the republic as a secure haven for its attacks on the North...
...second largest source of I.R.A. funds after Ireland itself, increasing attention is being paid to fund-raising activities among the 12.2 million Americans of Irish descent. Government sources in Dublin estimate that various individuals and groups in the U.S. have contributed $5 million or more to the Provos' war chest since the current troubles began in Northern Ireland six years ago, even though Dublin has tried to discourage such support throughout that period. There is still widespread sympathy for the cause, and open appeals for donations are sprinkled through Irish papers...