Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over the past two months, Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan have been trying to work a miracle in Northern Ireland. Sickened by the deaths of three children crushed by a wayward I.R.A. getaway car (TIME, Sept. 6), the two women raised a cry for peace that has brought 200,000 Roman Catholics and Protestants to demonstrations-together-to demand an end to seven years of sectarian bloodshed...
...less than a minute later, the Big Green's Charlie Krupanski evened the score with an assist from Doug Ireland...
...Congress simultaneously in November. A reporter from the Boston Globe raises the possibility that such a move might be illegal. Rarick looks puzzled and says he hasn't considered that. Another question. Busing. Ah yes! A smile. If Catholics and Protestants were to be successfully bused in Northern Ireland, Arabs and Israelis in the Mid-East, and Turks and Greeks on Cyprus--then Rarick might consider accepting busing in this country...
...Myles isn't the best of O'Nolan. The Gaelic novel is not only written for and of the Gales, but also purports to be by one-a certain Bonaparte O'Coonassa. But the credit transparently belongs to Myles, the columnist concerned about the so-called preservation of Gaelic Ireland, and the satirist who could mock things Gaelic as he lamented their passing, even making fun of his own concerns. All simultaneously, and in the language of the issue, the "Gaeltacht...
...edition, "The Editor" cautions that Corkadoragha is "without compare" and not to be taken as representative of the Gaelic community as a whole, in fact the town where the author-narrator of An Beal Bocht, O'Coonassa, was born and lived, does stand for all the Gaeltacht of West Ireland that O'Coonassa can see from his "small, lime-white and unhealthy house situated in the corner of the glen": from the bare Rosses and Tory Iland "like a great ship where the sky dips into the sea"-visible out the right hand window-to Connemara and Aranmore, seen...