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...little ditty is now being sung in Catholic pubs all over Northern Ireland. It is also burning the ears of Irish Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave, as well it might. Last week the militant Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army pulled a canny caper in downtown Dublin that made a mockery of Cosgrave's get-tough policy on the I.R.A...
Overt Step. The operation had been meticulously planned. According to police, the first overt step was taken two days before the breakout when a young man with an American accent, calling himself "Mr. Leonard," arranged to rent an Alouette II helicopter from Dublin's Irish Helicopters Ltd. It would be used, he explained, to photograph historical sites near Dublin...
...land at an isolated field located in the village of Stradbally. Leonard then bolted away as two armed, masked men approached. One gunman climbed aboard and ordered the pilot to fly to Mountjoy Prison. After the prisoners were liberated, the copter put down on a deserted race track outside Dublin; the I.R.A. men sped off in a hijacked taxi...
...fairy tale of its sharp dichotomy between good and bad, while retaining many of its mythic qualities. He has written an intensely personal vision of universal gloom. Like his hero, Donleavy was raised in New York, and like him, he sports a cultured accent, acquired at Trinity College in Dublin, and through life in England and Ireland...
...arms-buying trip to Europe. Their mission began as Irish low comedy and ended in fiasco. In Amsterdam their cover was blown, their planeload of Czech bazookas, rocket launchers and hand grenades was impounded, and Maria and Dave lammed out just ahead of the cops. She returned to Dublin a celebrity-too much so for the taste of Sean MacStiofain, the transplanted Englishman who was then the Provisional I.R.A.'s chief of staff. Maria McGuire hated the dour, puritanical MacStiofain (who since has been replaced as the Proves' top military man). His Roman Catholic scruples would not even...