Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Charles U. Daly, vice president for government and community affairs: "Who's that now, Kentucky, UCLA, Louisville, Syracuse? Well, there's no use my looking at those four teams, since I'm not interested in professional sports. Now, what I really care about is the all-Ireland hurling final this fall, I'm confident Cork will...
...over the Holocaust and an increased sympathy for the Palestinians. And we are under great pressures of both military and economic policy that we were not under before." Says Myron Kolatch, executive editor of the New Leader: "How do most Americans feel about the Catholic-Protestant civil war in Ireland? My guess would be 'A plague on both your houses.' And that's probably how most Americans are getting to feel about Israel and its Arab neighbors...
Curiously, O'Hanlon's distaste for the old ways is matched by his distrust of the new. Ireland's energetic attempts to attract industry (and keep some of the natives at home) is described as "the selling of Ireland to foreign investors...
...most controversial, heart-rending chap ter is one in which he blames the Ul ster savagery on the frustrations of Irish family life. In the Catholic Republic and the outposts in Londonderry and Bel fast, he argues, swarms of unwanted children bedevil hopeless parents: "Any body who lives in Ireland can testify to the absence of love in the average home." Fathers drink too much, then beat their wives and children with heavy, indiscriminate hands. Violence learned at the hearth is later re-enacted in the Irish Republican Army. O'Han lon cites his own unhappy home life...
Unlike any number of Ireland watchers, O'Hanlon offers no neat chapter full of progressive suggestions about future pol icy. His attitude is finally a supreme, Celtic compliment to Irish intransi gence: the admission that nothing can be done about...