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...Confessions when he learned that his death sentence had been commuted, possibly because of his U.S. citizenship. He was the only battalion leader to survive the Rising. Amnestied in 1917, he returned to a hero's welcome in Dublin and leadership of a new party, Sinn Fein (Ourselves Alone). When the 1920-21 guerrilla war against Britain's "Black and Tan" occupying army led to Ireland's partition into Ulster and the Irish Free State, De Valera joined the "irreconcilables" of the Irish Republican Army in a cruelly scarring civil war against supporters of the treaty...
...being homosexual I have lived with the most marvelously disastrous people. Of course one suffers. You like somebody and you suffer from it. But that's how life is." Born the son of a horse trainer in Ireland, raised in a thick atmosphere of decayed gentility and Sinn Fein violence, flung out of home at 16 for making love to the grooms, drifting into Berlin and the tackiest pits of Weimar decadence, changing addresses almost as often as shirts, surviving in an utterly provisional manner as unsuccessful interior decorator in Germany, as professional gambler in England, Bacon...
...Economics, Dr. Peter Braun, clinical director for the Center for the Analysis of Health Practices at the School of Public Health, and Dr. John P. Bunker '42, visiting professor of Preventive and Social Medicine, Dr. Paul M. Densen, director of the Center for Community Health and Medical Care, Rashi Fein, professor of the economics of Medicine, Dr. Robert J. Weiss, associate dean for health care planning, and Dr. John E. Wennberg, visiting professor of Preventive Medicine, all at the Medical School...
...arranging a face-saving formula that would allow them to end a losing war. Thus Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Merlyn Rees, despite repeated pleas for a "genuine and sustained" peace, refused to meet with members of the I.R.A.'s legal political wing, the Provisional Sinn Fein...
...Birmingham atrocity. Two weeks ago, an I.R.A. terrorist named James McDaid, 28, blew himself to bits while planting a bomb in Coventry, 15 miles east of Birmingham. On Thursday, McDaid's body was to be flown from Birmingham to Belfast for a "military funeral" and burial. The Shin Fein, the I.R.A.'s political whig, planned to turn the moving of his body from a Coventry mortuary to a Birmingham airport into a defiant and inflammatory hero's farewell. Some 1,500 police were on hand to enforce a government ban on the demonstration. The Birmingham bombs were...