Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just six months, more people have been killed in factional fighting in Lebanon-they call it "the troubles" here-than have died in six years of agony in Northern Ireland. While that statistic is dreadful, it does not begin to convey the sense of fear and insecurity that is gnawing away at Lebanon's veneer of sophistication...
...week began on a note of wistful hope. Northern Ireland's 78-member Constitutional Convention was scheduled to resume formal talks at Belfast's Stormont Parliament building after a summer of private discussions. To optimistic observers, it appeared that Ulster's Protestant and Roman Catholic politicians might be on the verge of some pragmatic settlement. Even the continued tide of sectarian terror, which extended to England in a wave of recent bombings (TIME, Sept. 15), did not dim the hope. The very savagery of the killings, so the reasoning went, would pressure the politicians to reach agreement...
Though a political miracle could conceivably save the convention, last week's disappointments probably doom Britain's latest attempt at a Northern Irish solution. They also make Merlyn Rees, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, even more vulnerable than before to attacks from Ulster's Unionists and British Conservatives. Their principal complaint: Rees' policy of holding suspects only on solid evidence and gradually releasing detainees has repopulated the countryside with alleged I.R.A. diehards. As an example of Rees' tolerance, Ian Paisley angrily charged -and the British army admitted-that Seamus Twomey, chief of staff...
There is a touch of the 19th century dandy about Donleavy, born 49 years ago in New York City and now living in a large Georgian house on a 180-acre cattle farm in Ireland. There is more than a touch of stately grandiloquence to the Donleavy prose, with its Latinate preferences and its "My-dear-sir!" bursts of lace-cuff-shooting mock elegance. But what the cadenced prose does is to set up the reader for the moment when Donleavy belches out his violent, scurrilous message: life, taken all in all, is obscene-the ultimate four-letter word...
...Northern Ireland, where killing has become almost matter-of-fact, the bloodshed, meanwhile, continued to mount, taking the lives of 20 people in only one week. In six years of fighting, 1,308 have been killed in Northern Ireland. The most outrageous incident occurred in south Armagh. While elderly members of a Protestant Orange lodge were attending their monthly meeting at the village hall, two masked men crashed through the door and sprayed the room with fire from automatic rifles. Five were killed by the gunmen, who belonged to a group thought to have close connections to the IRA Proves...