Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost a year, Northern Ireland has been rocked by stabbings, shootings, bombings and riots that have left scores injured and three dead. Behind the trouble is a growing tension between Northern Ireland's 1,250,000 Protestants loyal to the Queen and the country's 500,000 Roman Catholics, who want closer ties with the Catholic-dominated Republic of Ireland. Last week Prime Minister Terence O'Neill's government took its first legal action against the man who has stirred up much of the recent trouble. He is big, garrulous Rev. Ian Paisley, 40, leader...
Motor launches took questionnaires to lonely lighthouses at Neptune and Thistle Islands and along the Great Barrier Reef, while on the equatorial Australian-trust island of New Ireland, Census Taker Douglas Fyfe, normally a schoolteacher, set up shop beside a flooded river to interview rubber-plantation workers. Four men drowned in a swamped boat as they tried to reach Fyfe, but he counted them anyway, since they had been alive 30 hours earlier on the census deadline...
SPORTSMAN'S HOLIDAY (NBC, 5:30-6 p.m.). "Black Marlin of Peru," "Arctic Fishing" and "Game Birds of Ireland" are on the agenda...
...week before Britain's Queen Elizabeth II was scheduled to dedicate a bridge in Belfast, Northern Ireland, four young Roman Catholics were mercilessly shot down from ambush in yet another example of the bloody, factional feuding that has rived the country for 44 years. The incident could hardly have come at a worse time; despite the deep loyalty of most of the country's 1.5 million people, Elizabeth is the living symbol of oppression to the 500,000 Catholic minority, and officials feared some kind of retaliation. Sure enough, as the royal bubble-top limousine rolled through...
...Ireland's Malahide Castle, at intervals between 1925 and 1941, Boswell's descendants discovered a vast mass of manuscript stacked in a hideous old ebony cabinet, in the moldy loft of a barn, in an ancient croquet box. It was the literary find of the century: thousands of Boswell's letters, notes for the Life and drafts of it in his own hand, above all the manuscript of his masterpiece-the voluminous journal he kept for 35 years. Published in seven installments between 1950 and 1963, the Journal (which sold 2,500,000 copies) dramatically transformed...