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Somehow it is fitting that the people of Northern Ireland can't even agree on the name of the treaty they signed four years ago to end the Troubles. Catholics call it the Good Friday agreement after the holy day on which it was reached. To many Protestants that seems irreverent, so they call it the Belfast agreement. But each side argues that its commitment to the agreement's principles is greater than the other's. So how have they allowed themselves to get into yet another disastrous fight? This week Britain is set to suspend self-government, close...
Without notice, without segue, Heaney then swerved rather powerfully towards a justification of poetry. Having grown and matured against the background of shootings, bombings and strikes in northern Ireland, Heaney is no stranger to political conflict and the demands of civic responsibility. Heaney admits that in the face of such peril, poetry seems like “arbitrary, pleasure-seeking shape-making.” And it is. What seemed to baffle the audience was that this doesn’t trouble...
...front of "country people" (non-Travelers), speak a Gaelic-English dialect called "cant." ("Misli shayjo!" means "Go away, the police are here!") Some have traces of Irish accents, though their ancestors arrived in the U.S. 150 years ago. Says Michael McDonagh, one of the 30,000 Travelers still in Ireland, who has worked with hisU.S. counterparts: "Their sense of tradition is stronger there than here...
...market weakness, while 39% expect to cut capital spending further next year. BOTTOM LINES "I used to look up at the Imperial Hotel, now I stay at the Imperial Hotel. It's nice to see the working class doing well, isn't it?" John Reid, Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary, on the success of the Labour government's policies "I will not be ashamed to say in three years' time that I've done nothing." Paolo Scaroni, Enel CEO, saying he won't turn the Italian utility into an empire "I don't think a $100 billion...
Even at the best of times, Northern Ireland's peace process resembles a roller-coaster ride. But the lurch it took last week was so unexpected that many riders may be thrown off the track. On Friday, police showed up at Stormont, the seat of Ulster's government, and went straight to the offices of Sinn Fein, a key partner in the province's power-sharing arrangements. Detectives seized computer discs that, police said, might contain evidence that the Irish Republican Army spied on the British government during the peace process. The raid was the tail end of a major...