Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NORTHERN IRELAND...
...sponsors did not even know that she was coming until she was in the air over the North Atlantic, but no matter. Diminutive Bernadette Devlin, at 22 the youngest member of Britain's House of Commons and a notable firebrand in Northern Ireland's recent disorders, overnight became the biggest sensation to arrive in the U.S. from the British Isles since the Beatles and Twiggy...
...first sight." But she reacted differently to two big-city mayors with less liberal qualifications. Of Chicago's Richard Daley, Bernadette sniffed: "I don't even want a donation from him," and she did not meet Los Angeles' Sam Yorty. Everywhere, she warned against oversimplifying Northern Ireland's problems. "The press feels we're either trying to kick hell out of the British or kick hell out of the Protestants," she said in Los Angeles. "What we really want are our civil rights...
...cities, a sullen quiet prevailed back home. British Tommies still served as an efficient barrier between the Protestant and Catholic neighborhoods of Belfast and Londonderry. Home Secretary James Callaghan flew over from London. On his arrival, he said: "I'm not here to dictate to the Northern Ireland government. I've come here to help." To a crowd in Catholic Bogside, however, Callaghan said: "I am not neutral. I am on the side of all those who are deprived of justice and freedom. I will apply myself to your problem." Among the first applications was a 40-minute...
...Troubles." The Irish Republican Army, brilliantly led by Michael Collins, fought one of the first of this century's many guerrilla wars. The bloodletting continued until 1921, and was ended when Britain's Prime Minister David Lloyd George offered peace on the basis of a partition of Ireland into 26 independent counties, called the Irish Free State, and six of the original nine counties of Ulster, which would remain united with Great Britain. Michael Collins accepted the offer, but diehard I.R.A. men, who wanted a united Ireland or none at all, plunged the newly independent state, later called...