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...Crown confiscated the rich lands of the rebels and brought in a flood of Scotch and English settlers in the famous "plantation of Ulster" in 1608. The seaport of Derry was handed over to the city of London and renamed Londonderry. Yet 30 years later the Ulster Irish were still strong enough to launch another uprising, under Owen Roe O'Neill. It grew so serious that it finally required the fire-and-sword scourging of Ireland by Oliver Cromwell...
...which was then occupied by the Dutchman, William of Orange. Irish Catholics supplied Catholic James with fighting men, but their hopes were crushed in two battles. Spurred by antipopery, the Ulster Protestants rallied to William and successfully withstood a 3½-month Catholic siege of Londonderry. Later, at the famous Battle of the Boyne River, the Irish Catholics were on the brink of winning-until James II panicked and fled...
...Famous prima donnas are apt to regard a bout with contemporary opera as roughly equivalent to a gargle with sulphuric acid. Modern composers, singers say, don't know how to write. They ruin voices by demanding odd and un-vocal sounds. Though this attitude is widespread, there is evidence that it is less a matter of fact than fashion. Birgit Nilsson, though she sings no contemporary opera at all, points out that composers are usually ahead of performers. Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, she observes, was abandoned as un-performable, "yet nowadays no dramatic soprano can be considered...
...Greene's view, conditions do not improve as man grows up. As the most famous of the trio of British literary converts (the others: Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark), Greene is a Catholic of Augustinian severity, more conscious of evil than of grace. "Human nature," he asserts, here as in his novels, "is not black and white but black and grey...
Meaningful Deterioration. There is never any doubt about the geography of Greene's imagination. It is in the tropics, inimical to man, where decisive and meaningful deterioration occurs or is resisted. Greene rather blames Ronald Knox, famous convert and translator of the Bible, for having spent a cloistered life rather than dying like his obscure Anglican grandfather in "the dirty upper room of a Goanese grog shop." Fidel Castro, as jungle hero, he finds sympathetic: "This man, so Pauline in his labours and in his escapes from suffering and death...