Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Council Passed another resolution welcoming Mary T.W. Robinson, former president of Ireland and Harvard's Commencement Day speaker...
...Londonderry, the second largest city in Northern Ireland, the citizens can't even agree on the name of the place they all live. The Catholics call it Derry, the original name before the English arrived to colonize the island. The Protestants insist on using the name with their preferred national capital stuck in front...
...even as just over 71% of the citizens of both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland voted to endorse a peace agreement that offers the best hope ever of ending the sectarian warfare in the North, Londonderry stands as the symbol of what went wrong in the British province, of what could go right in the wake of the positive vote, and of the difficulties ahead...
...sides realized that they could not win a military victory," says Donncha MacNiallais, a former I.R.A. member who became a community worker in the Bogside after serving 10 years in prison. To encourage the move away from violence, Britain, the U.S. and the European Community poured money into Northern Ireland to fund community groups and self-help schemes. Local agitators, including dozens of former prisoners, were given offices and mobile phones in the hope that they would begin worrying about funding targets, not bombing targets. In central Londonderry, every other street corner seems to house the offices of some worthy...
...next step: An election for the new Northern Ireland assembly on June 25 -- and the political wrangling for seats in that body has already begun. But today's vote means that power will no longer be won with bullets and bombs. "This vote says people want to try a new kind of politics," Hillenbrand says. "If I had said four years ago I'd be standing in a room with paramilitaries from all organizations, you'd have had me committed. There's no love between these people." What there is now is peace...