Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government with power shared equally by Catholics and Protestants, and tied to England, must be established in Northern Ireland to restore order in that country, an official of Ulster's only bisectarian political party said at the ARCO Forum last night...
John Cushnahan, general secretary of Northern Ireland's Alliance Party, said, "My party is convinced that a partnership government would develop a new common loyalty between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland...
Confined to the past tense and a prickly brogue, the trio conjure up a existence of bucketing around Scotland, Wales and Ireland in a van that doubles as home and transport. They fetch up in drafty halls before the blind, the crippled and the mad (unseen), some of whom never wanted to be cured but came to confirm their unyielding despair...
Migration is Galbraith's most controversial solution to poverty. He brushes aside the possibility that those the least willing to tolerate poverty are probably the ones who through their energy and motivation are the most able to help their poverty-stricken brethren. Ireland is the classic case where the able and strong abandoned a country, leaving the weak and infirm behind. True, Ireland is better off now than during the potato famines, but to attribute this to migration requires ridiculously long-run analysis. Similarly Galbraith plays down the racial hatred migrants have inspired and the dreadful standard of living--hardly...
...government, Britain was shaken by the unthinkable, the assassination of a shadow-cabinet member within the hallowed confines of Westminster. The Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.) claimed responsibility for planting a bomb in a blue Vauxhall driven by Airey Neave, 63, who would have been Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in a Thatcher Cabinet. It was the second assassination of a British official in as many weeks. Neave may have written his own epitaph with his views on I.R.A. terrorism: "The British public will become more resistant than ever." Still, the I.R.A. had made it clear that no official could...