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...recently signed Irish peace treaty has the potential to correct human rights abuses in Northern Ireland, Peace Watch Ireland activist Sean Cahill told an audience of about 15 at the Barker Center for the Humanities last night...
British and Irish leaders signed the treaty April 10, creating a new government for Northern Ireland which will involve greater coordination between Britain and the Republic of Ireland. Previously, Britain has assumed sole control over the province, which consists of six of the original nine counties of Ulster...
...majority" provisions, which require both Catholic and Protestant politicians in a new bipartisan assembly to approve legislation, as the treaty's most important innovation. Both sides, he said, received part of what they wanted in the accord, which is intended to end the violence over British rule in Northern Ireland...
...Northern Ireland's conflict, Cahill said, is not fundamentally a religious controversy...
What is most surprising--and, to some critics, bothersome--about McDonagh is that he has never lived in the country he writes about so vividly. His Irish parents moved to London before he was born, and he visited Ireland only for summer holidays. His parents moved back a few years ago, leaving Martin and his brother to share the South London house where they grew up. McDonagh bridles gently at the notion that he's unfit to follow in the tradition of Sean O'Casey and John Millington Synge--that "with an accent like mine you can't write Irish...