Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...composition and style of pottery shards found in one of the pestholes are characteristic of that time. Thus the hall was apparently built at least 1,000 years before Stonehenge, and is several centuries older than a small timber hutch in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, that has until now been regarded as the most ancient building in the United Kingdom...
...keep sheep and want to keep them in order, the thing to have is a sheep dog. The man to get one from at the Sheep Breeders Festival is Maurice MacGregor of Pittsfield, Mass., a bulky emigrant from Northern Ireland who sells border collie pups (at $150 for an eight-week-old pup and $1,000 for a fully trained adult). Selling sheep dogs is his business and many of his sales are made at sheep-dog trials...
...fanatically partisan fans of Britain's four national teams (representing England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales) have all turned Scottish for a month, since the Highlanders are the only United Kingdom squad in the Cup finals. At Westminster, M.P.s were forced to break with a tradition of holding parliamentary by-elections on Thursdays, when one at Hamilton, near Glasgow, conflicted with World Cup opening ceremonies. Faced with a $2,500 airfare to Argentina, a number of frugal Scottish supporters flew to New York City and hitchhiked south, and at least two made the trip on bicycles...
...their random strikes. Near Milan a masked gang announcing itself as Red Brigades forced its way into the Italian subsidiary of Honeywell Corp. and set fire to a storehouse, destroying $1.1 million in electronic equipment. That attack followed a "kneecapping" (the technique developed by the I.R. A. in Ireland of shooting at the legs) of an Italian executive of the Milan branch of Chemical Bank of New York. The violence has caused some members of the international business community to think seriously about security. Said one Western diplomat in Rome: "I know more than one executive who's been...
...Cuddy, "coursing" (dog racing) and wagering on greyhounds have been a genteel tradition he has followed since age ten, when he bet a nickel on dogs with his schoolmates. Bookmaking is legal in Ireland, and gambling has fewer of the immoral overtones that it does in this country. When asked if he thought corruption existed in American dog racing, Cuddy replied, "There are crooked people in every profession. It's wrong to categorize dog racing as being any more dishonest than another. People who say that are full of codswallop...