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...Nobody Knows can never escape its own brilliance, just as its ten year old actor Ralph Carter cannot help stealing the show. The program says that in school Ralph "played the Prince in Cinderella and Peter Cottontail in an Easter play." Well Ralph has parlayed his prior experience into a fortune of acting virtuosity. It is fantastic to see this miniature human being mimic the mannerisms of his elders so exactly. At one point he tells about a racist insult he received at a neighborhood store and then brings down the house when he turns to the audience with mock...
...Parliament in 1914, but implementation was put off until the end of World War I, partly to ward off the possibility of an uprising by the militant Ulster Volunteer Force founded in 1913 by Irish Protestants determined to fight home rule. The war, however, brought a new complication: the Easter Rebellion. In 1905, the Fenians had reorganized into a formal political party called the Sinn Fein (Ourselves Alone). Eight years later, some of its members helped form the rebel militia that eventually became known as the Irish Republican Army. On Easter Monday, 1916, the poet Padraic Pearse...
...exploits of those years of remembered glory were characterized by stealth, ambush, assassination and intimidation. Arms caches and the police were the main targets. On Jan. 21, 1919, gunmen raiding a cart of explosives killed two Royal Irish Constabulary guards, thereby causing the first British deaths since the Easter Rising. Gunmen began ambushing the constables from behind walls and ditches. In November 1919, a daring raid by the I.R.A. Cork Brigade cleaned out the arms from a British sloop in Bantry Bay. The Irish public tacitly supported the cause with boycotts of British goods...
...Life. Later, the gunmen fought against the newly organized Free State government, because it had accepted partition and taken an oath of allegiance to the crown. Even when Eamon de Valera, a commander of the Easter Rebellion, took over as Free State Prime Minister in 1932, the I.R.A. kept up the struggle. De Valera was ultimately forced to round up and intern many of his old comrades in arms...
...least partly by fear. More objective observers suggest that the army's power is based on its quixotic appeal to the Irish imagination. It is an imagination fired by songs and poems about legendary deeds and martyred patriots, such as William Butler Yeats' poem of the Rising in Easter...