Word: irelands
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During a recent television interview, David O'Connell, chief of staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, issued a grim warning. Because of the "total indifference" of the British public to the "terrible war in Ireland," he said, the British "will suffer the consequences." O'Connell sanctimoniously promised that the Provisional I.R.A. would strike only at "economic, military, political and judicial targets." Last week the Irish militants made good their threat, but tragically they chose a target of a different and more innocuous sort...
...Thursday evening, two I.R.A. bombs exploded inside pubs in Birmingham, England's second largest city, leaving 19 people dead and 184 injured. It was the worst single bloodletting since the present agony in Northern Ireland began-costlier than even "Bloody Friday," July 21, 1972, when twelve people were slaughtered and 130 injured in a series of bombings in Belfast...
Next day, however, Lou Yallop, a local garage owner, said that he also recognized the fish. It had been in his freezer ever since he had caught it on a trip to Ireland last year. He had finally thawed it out for dinner, but his wife refused to cook it, fearing that it had gone bad. So he threw it into the river. "I thought it would be a laugh if some fisherman found it washed up somewhere, but I never expected all this fuss," says Yallop. "I know it is the same fish because it weighs about the same...
...adds to, rather than detracts from their claim to respectability. Thus it is quite possible, if an independent Palestinian state is ever established, that statues of Arafat will some day be erected in the plazas of Nablus, like the plaques and statues of Eamon de Valéra in Ireland and Emiliano Zapata in Mexico. The fact that the leader of the P.L.O. appeared at the U.N. showed that it is already becoming respectable in the eyes of much of the world. "Respectability depends on whose side you're on," says Oxford Historian Alastair Buchan. "To the Turks, Lawrence...
Oppressed peoples have often turned to violence as the first step in their fight for nationhood. If it were not for the guerrilla war carried out by the Irish Republican Army, for example, the Republic of Ireland might never have gained its independence. The unsavory reputation of the I.R.A. did not prevent its onetime leader, Sean MacBride, from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize last month for his subsequent crusade for human justice in Amnesty International...