Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committed to peace in Ireland? She bravely told how her sister's three children, eight years, two years and six weeks old, had been killed when the car of a member of the provisional Irish Republican Army--Who moments before had been killed at the wheel by British gunfire-ran over the children...
...stood there aghast, a loudmouthed woman with a reporter's notebook shoved me out of the way, and buzzard-like, bore down on her prey. "what is the name of this group in Ireland? Are you working with them? How can they hope to change anything...
...Corrigan was doing at that party is what the author of Mairead Corrigan, Betty Williams tried, but failed to do in his book. She was explaining the Irish peace movement, but, more importantly, she was trying to dissolve the international apathy about the "Irish question." Richard Deutsch, a Northern Ireland correspondent for Le Figaro, has lived in Belfast for the past five years, which might imply an understanding of the situation. Unfortunately, his book reads like a shallow but prolonged newspaper article; it is informative, but not particularly insightful...
...strains to evoke the magic of mass marches of 30,000 people with phrases like "very moving" which only call attention to his prosaic writing. Normally, a simple stylistic flaw in a journalistic account would be relatively unimportant, but when writing about Northern Ireland, style is paramount. A chronology of events tied together with trite homilies contributes of the Irish conflict. You might just as well read another newspeper story...
...peace movement in Ireland is bigger than its three gifted, Iuminous leaders. The constitution of the Peace People sets up an elaborately decentralized in the movement. The marches are over now, and the hard work of peace has just begun...