Word: irelands
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Peace in Northern Ireland [WORLD, June 1]? I'll believe it when I see it. Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, may have changed his tune, but others have not. Ask me 30 years from now whether this was a watershed or just another "Sinn Feint." FLASH FIASCO Mannheim, Germany...
Robinson, who was the first woman president of Ireland from 1990 to 1997, marked the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by reminding graduates that obstacles still remain to its full realization. The declaration was issued by the U.N. following the atrocities of World...
Despite anticipation that Robinson would speakabout the recent peace accord in Ireland, shefailed to mention it. Still listeners werepleased...
Anyone want to buy a memoir by a guy named McCourt? Silly question. Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, a haunting account of his impoverished childhood in Limerick, Ireland, has been translated into 19 languages, including Turkish and Croatian, and has sold 4 million copies worldwide. The book has spent 90 weeks at or near the top of the New York Times Book Review best-seller list and earned its author, 67, a clutch of awards, including the Pulitzer Prize...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939) He was temperamentally a Romantic, eager for seclusion: "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree." But public life would not let him. Whatever his subject--his native Ireland's struggles for independence, the growing chaos across Europe--he turned current events into lasting art. In the aftermath of World War I, he pronounced a memorable verdict: "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;/ Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...