Word: ireland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These play well against the political passions of terrorists in Northern Ireland and their Irish-American supporters. Fanatical hatred tends to homogenize characters while removing their interesting elements. Their actions, however, are hard to ignore. A daring raid on a Boston National Guard armory nets the boyos a cache of M-16s, 40-mm grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and a wardrobe of flak jackets. Getting this arsenal to Belfast involves the cooperation of members of Boston's Irish underground and I.R.A. sympathizers in the U.S. Customs Department...
...preserve the effectiveness of a British-run mole in the I.R.A. Maas cuts a clear line between his sympathy for the Irish cause and his aversion to cold-blooded violence. There is ice, too, in the veins of Britain's counterterrorists, and hypocrisy in the Republic of Ireland, whose constitution includes all of the Emerald Isle in its national territory. As one insider puts it, "It was an open secret that given its domestic economic woes, the last thing the republic's leadership wanted was to take on the burden of the six northern counties." This is a good story...
...scores of U.S. cities this week, Americans of Irish descent will celebrate St. Patrick's Day by donning green hats, marching through the streets shouting "Erin go bragh!" and proudly proclaiming their Irishness to anyone who will listen. Yet as many as 100,000 natives of Ireland, newly arrived in the U.S., will hesitate to join the parades. They live in the fearful shadow world of the illegal alien...
...surge of new arrivals began in 1982, propelled by a debt-plagued Irish economy in which unemployment soared to almost 19% last year, sometimes reaching twice that for young people under 25. Even Ireland's Prime Minister Charles Haughey seemed to encourage the exodus...
...Patrick's Day is approaching fast, and Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Velucci has his theory about the story behind the holiday. "He chased the snakes out of Ireland, but he ought to send them up to Harvard University...