Word: fein
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...moderate program that did indeed emphasize a political solution. He outlined the government's determination to continue transferring responsibility for the security of the province to the Ulstermen themselves. In a dramatic gesture aimed at restoring an elusive normalcy, he announced the legalization of both the Provisional Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.'s political wing, and the only proscribed Protestant group, the Ulster Volunteer Force. Rees also said that there would still be a "phased program" of release for 584 detainees who have been held without trial under the Special Powers Act of 1971, even though there is strong...
...Congo to Connemara, the lesson to Casement was writ plain. He had been raised a Protestant in Ulster, and his next cause, after retirement from the foreign service, was to be his native Ireland, the very exemplar of colonial misrule. In 1913 war clouds were lowering and, as Sinn Fein Guru Tom Clarke prophesied, "England's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity." For years, while a servant of the crown, Casement had nourished a hatred of the English that was to become, in Inglis' word, a "monomania." Now he proclaimed on the eve of World War I that...
...lived quietly in rural Navan, northwest of Dublin, gave periodic television and press interviews and occasionally slipped across the border to harangue I.R.A. units in the field. Theoretically he was a wanted man, but last month he boldly appeared in downtown Dublin at a convention of the Provisional Sinn Fein-the political branch of the I.R.A.-to a standing ovation of 1,000 assembled delegates. "I say with confidence that we can escalate at will," he bragged in a tape-recorded radio interview just before his arrest last week. "If we were not in that position, we would...
...recent bombing of his father-in-law's pub just north of the border. Under O'Malley's authority, the government has prosecuted more than 100 I.R.A. men on various charges, tightened controls on firearms and explosives, and last month raided and padlocked the Provisional Sinn Fein offices in Dublin. This week the government will present to the Irish Parliament a bill that seeks to redefine membership in illegal organizations and put the burden of proof on defendants to disclaim their affiliation with such groups. Says O'Malley: "It's part of the general policy...
...Dimensions. Lynch's government arrested five top Official I.R.A. leaders in Dublin, including Chief of Staff Cathal Goulding. More were jailed following raids on the ramshackle offices of Sinn Fein (Ourselves Alone), the I.R.A.'s legal political front, and on homes in Dublin and Cork. Although Sinn Fein charged that Lynch was yielding to Westminster pressure in his tough anti-I.R.A. policy, his crackdown was intended to prevent a possible spread of violence to the Republic...