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...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...
...supreme ironies of Ireland's history that a mid-12th century Pope first granted the land to England. For centuries thereafter the English fitfully sought to establish their dominion over the warlike yet poetry-intoxicated Gaelic tribes. It was not until the Reformation, however, that London determined once and for all to bring Ireland and its stubborn Catholics to heel. English colonies were "planted" on Irish soil, often with great bloodshed; sometimes peasants were stripped naked and thrown into bogs for the amusement of the invaders. During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, Poet Edmund Spenser witnessed the horrors...
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...
Like her heroine, Author Gallie is Welsh-born. But she has got the Gaelic in her, and in the country of the word she is no stranger...
Miss McKenna has a magnetic personality, and she knows how to populate a stage singlehanded. At the same time, she releases the audience's imaginative powers. What animates her performance is that she so obviously loves her people deep down in her bones. Delivering a ritual lament in Gaelic, she creates an atmosphere of runic awe; her body becomes a crucible of Irish antiquity and suffering...