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...most criticized zealots. Though the membership numbers only about 2,000 worldwide, it is vigorous and farflung: about 60 colonies are scattered from Seattle to Essen, Germany, from Jerusalem to Viet Nam. A London colony founded a few months ago has already sent missionaries to Stockholm, Oslo, Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin, Amsterdam and Brussels. Liberia is the next target...
...were survivals from an Ireland that had disappeared." Joyce, in Ulysses, credited the gnomelike storyteller with "that strange thing called genius." Yet towering Irish writers like Joyce himself partially eclipsed the less assertive talent of Colum. His literary legacy to Ireland was nonetheless enormous. Colum helped set up Dublin's Abbey Theater and the Irish Review before emigrating to New York in 1914 with his wife, Literary Critic Mary Gunning Maguire. Both Colums occasionally taught at Columbia University, but Padraic devoted most of his energy to producing hundreds of poems, essays, plays, histories, biographies and children's stories...
RUARÍ Ó BRADAIGH, president of the Provisional wing of the Sinn Fein, the Dublin-based party that is sometimes described as the I.R.A. political arm. Just short of 40, with a high-domed, cherubic face, he looks less like an I.R.A. veteran than a high school teacher, which is what he is-although he has little time for classes these days. He works full time tending the republican movement's aboveground political machinery, leading street demonstrations, making speeches and running its propaganda campaign. He is the Sinn Fein's most visible face...
There was a time, however, when ÓBradaigh was an I.R.A. gunman. Twice he served as the army's chief of staff. In 1956 he led an armed column of raiders up from the South to attack police barracks in Ulster, which landed him in Dublin's Bridewell Prison on his return. While still in jail, he was elected to the Irish Dáil (House of Representatives) on the Sinn Fein ticket, but he did not serve. During the late 1960s, he was one of those who opposed the growing Marxist influence in the movement ("The Communists...