Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were then gunned down in a withering hail of automatic fire. Ten died instantly. At week's end the badly wounded survivor remained in serious condition at a nearby hospital. In its methodical ruthlessness and cold-blooded efficiency, the slaughter was one of the worst episodes in Northern Ireland's tragic history...
...constitutes sad testimony to the endless cycle of terror and reprisal in Ulster, those murders were, in turn, thought to be in retaliation for three recent pub bombings by the Provisional I.R.A. that killed three and injured 57. In all, 20 people have died in sectarian violence in Northern Ireland since New Year's Eve. The bloodshed added gruesome weight to recent warnings by political leaders that 1976 would see an increase in violence...
Responsible Protestant and Catholic leaders are pleading for restraint. "The blood lust which is ripping Armagh must be stopped before the whole of Ulster is engulfed by murder madness," said Thomas Passmore, Grand Master of Belfast's Orange Lodge. William Cardinal Conway, Ireland's Roman Catholic primate, described the Whitecross killings as "spitting in the face of Christ." Added a deeply pessimistic editorial in Dublin's Irish Times: "The headless horseman is driving Northern Ireland full tilt down the road to hell...
...Barry Lyndon, like his far greater creation, Becky Sharp, is a social climber at heart. Thackeray's attitude to figures of this kind is a mixture of sympathy and a consciousness that they must not be allowed to succeed. Thus Barry ends his life as a poor invalid in Ireland and Becky as a tattered card sharp making the rounds of tawdry German courts. Yet some sympathy always remains for these characters, either because--like Becky--they are so much brighter and more intelligent than the world around them, or--like Barry--they are so blissfully unaware of their...
...they have. Britain's foremost pop paper, Melody Maker, has named the Chieftains not just the folk group of 1975, but the Group of the Year - "for making unfashionable music fashionable." Actually, what the Chieftains play derives from music that has been fashionable in Ireland for centuries and comes as close as anything to being the classical music of Eire...