Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shopping list. And he never settles for shoddy goods. Among his finds have been The Changing Room by David Sto rey and The National Health by Peter Nichols. The link continues with Spokesong, a play of tipsy irony and fantastical humor set against the cruel fratricide of Northern Ireland...
...hopes to sponsor at least 11 students next month and several more during the summer in volunteer jobs that will range from working with a security analyst in Boston to assisting a city planner in Palo Alto, Calif., to spending a few weeks with a science fiction writer in Ireland...
BOMBS EXPLODE IN BELFAST and young children, who know little of the ways of their parents, die. It happens all too often in Northern Ireland, a bleeding sore of a place where a British accent is the law and religion is the best excuse around for killing your friends. Pipe bombs, savage little devils that will indiscriminately swallow up Protestant and Catholic legs, are very popular in Ulster now, but they do not have many friends. Bombs like that maim everyone they meet, and the people who throw them do not apologize. They are not supposed to; they are just...
...going, of course, is not to the hardy band of romantics that gamboled their way about the Easter Rebellion as only Sean O'Casey could imagine. Fluther Good and his friends are dead now, and with them has passed away so much that was respectable about "The Cause" in Ireland. It really doesn't matter any more which side you are on. The Catholic Provisionals of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) are just as bloodstained as the Protestants of the Ulster Defense League--so why bother to choose, when both are in the business of slaughtering the defenseless...
...excesses and unavoidable artistic sacrifices to the commercial novelist's form book, is an intriguing story of a man at odds with his culture and his deepest beliefs. And it is all the more interesting because Father Thomas O'Neill is not just a little bit like Ireland itself: religious but unwilling to be stereotyped as such, bothered about his past, uncertain of his future, and unwilling to make the final wager in blood to achieve what he has been told all his life he must do, O'Neill is very much the typical Irishman of the modern...