Word: gaelic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SEAN MACSTIOFÁIN, 42, the army's Southern-based chief of staff. He was born near London, and until twelve years ago he answered to both his English name, John Stephenson, and his adopted Gaelic name. Caught up in the republican movement through his Irish heritage, he married an Irish girl from Cork after having served three years in the R.A.F. and joined the I.R.A. He also worked for British Railways as a trainee inspector, a job that gave him free tickets to Ireland for himself and his family. Imprisoned at Wormwood Scrubbs in 1953 for his part...
...follow her into the Community. Not that Prince Charles is about to be appointed Emperor, as Nancy Mitford has wryly suggested. Ireland, for example, which will vote on entry in a referendum next spring and which has already won assurance that important EEC documents will be translated into Gaelic, sees the Common Market as a way of finally escaping from British domination. Dublin may well look to Paris for leadership...
...Gaelic Sign. The 2,400 British troops trying to police the border have an almost impossible assignment. The frontier has no fences, no minefields, no walls, no guard towers. Officials are not even sure how long it is; their published estimates range from 250 to 303 miles. Twenty roads cross the frontier at authorized transit points, marked by British and Irish customs posts. An additional 160 "unapproved" roads also cross the border; passage along them is forbidden, but they are widely used for transporting everything from guns to butter, from whisky to gelignite. On the other hand, British troops have...
Last week, two British Ferret scout cars, each manned by a corporal, set off down an "unapproved" road south of the border village of Crossmaglen. Suddenly, when they saw a Gaelic sign on a schoolhouse, they realized they had gone too far. Turning swiftly back through the hamlet of Courtbane, they found the narrow lane blocked by a minibus and a crowd of jeering youths who poured gasoline over one of the scout cars. Moments later, as the vehicle blazed, a corporal scrambled out and jumped quickly into the other car. Finally, after 30 minutes of agonized waiting, the soldiers...
Ulster proved to be the most difficult section of Ireland to subdue, with its strong tradition of the old Gaelic order of poets, brehons (jurists), chroniclers and powerful lordships still intact. Hugh O'Neill and Red Hugh O'Donnell, with the help of the Spaniards, successfully fought Elizabeth's minions for more than a decade. But in 1603, after the Battle of Kinsale, they capitulated. O'Neill led his Catholic chiefs in the "Flight of the Earls" to the Continent, leaving Ulster open to the infamous "plantation" of 1608. The earls' vast lands were forfeited...