Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good times as well as bad, the Irish remain feisty folk. Among other things, labor-management strife increases even as the little (pop. 2,800,000) Republic of Ireland grows more prosperous. In 1960 Ireland had virtually no strikes. Last year it had 89 major ones - trainmen quit running trains, gravediggers quit digging graves, and, no doubt with special enthusiasm, mailmen cut off all parcel-post traffic be tween the Ould Sod and England...
...packs his camping gear in the car, and voila! the whole family are enjoying themselves just as they did back in Yosemite National Park, only now it's less crowded. There are thousands of excellent camp sites from the fjords of Norway to the oases of Morocco, from Ireland to Turkey, in the biggest cities and the smallest villages; and there are many camping guides in English. Between camp sites there is a wealth of scenery and color. And who's to stop a couple from putting on their fancy clothes in camp and shooting...
Instead, following the controversial U.S. example, Callaghan set up machinery for "voluntary" curbs on British investment in the developed countries of the sterling bloc-Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland and South Africa. He confirmed a 21% tax on gambling, effective Oct. 24, a tax on casinos starting Oct. 1, and a widely anticipated increase in corporate income taxes, from 35% to 40%. Britain, said Callaghan, will also ask West Germany to absorb the $224 million-a-year cost of keeping British troops there...
...easy to dismiss this sort of thing as irresponsible fantasy, but it should be recalled that this last little apparently sick mick joke is directed against James Joyce, who made one of his characters rage against Ireland as "the old sow that eats her own farrow...
PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! On the eve of a departure, memories wrestle with longings, the familiar competes with the unknown. Irish Playwright Brian Friel gives a compassionate rendering of the conflict in one young man as he prepares to leave Ireland for the new world...