Word: iras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...random, vendetta killings. "Many, many innocent people have been killed," he says. "There's a tit-for-tat campaign of sectarian murder, where randomly chosen Catholics and Protestants are killed by the violent groups, simply because of their religion and for no other reason at all." One day the IRA kills a Protestant, Hume says, and the next day the Ulster Defence Association retaliates and kills a Catholic...
...Casey sees the Plough and Stars (the flag of the IRA) from the window of a Dublin flat, and through women's eyes. This view of the Easter Revolution was cynical enough to cause riots when it first was staged. In O'Casey's portrayal, the Irishmen in the Citizen Army died shitting with fear; their wives went mad trying to keep them safe at home. The only heroes in The Plough and Stars are those who neither fight nor spout rhetoric: Fluther Good, the working man whose honest dignity defies the British to do their worst, though...
...sorts, arguing about what to watch on television while a room full of weapons sits upstairs. They are a family with interconnecting lives, yet they know little about each other. Mayo does not explain to Hood why he is kept waiting for a call to action in the IRA...
...thrill out of having her things stolen than she does from giving them away. The novel turns on Hood's discovery that Mayo's stolen painting really belongs to Lady Arrow. All action, Hood sees, is political and all politics, drama. This is true not only of the IRA's schemes but also of his own. In Van der Weyden's artistic portrait of a man of action, Hood had come to recognize his own face...
...sport. On losses to the Providence Friars-- They had the Holy Father out there as well as the team. We felt like we were right in the middle of an Irish rebellion. Providence brings in all those Irish imports so I think that our best chance would be an IRA rebellion. It appeals to my devious nature to unite with the IRA. I'd call Kennedy but I don't know whether he'd be sympathetic. I'm told there used to be a law on the books in this state that said that no one from Rhode Island could...