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...there is a democratically elected president in Haiti, peace in Bosnia--we've just had elections there," Clinton said. "We made progress in Northern Ireland and the Middle East...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Presidential Candidates Square Off in Hartford | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

...proposed design features a life-size sculpture of a couple as they flee Ireland to escape the famine. As Flaherty told the commission, the statue shows a mother, too weak to go on, sitting on the ground, holding her dying child and bidding goodbye to her husband and other child...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Endorses Plan for Irish Famine Memorial | 10/4/1996 | See Source »

According to Patrick Lee, Grafton Street is a street in Dublin, Ireland that is very similar to Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Irish Restaurant Set to Open in Square | 10/2/1996 | See Source »

Jobs were as scarce in Ireland as they had been in America, but life did not much improve on those rare occasions when Frank's father Malachy found work. As McCourt recalls in a spunky, bittersweet memoir called Angela's Ashes (Scribner; 364 pages; $24), his dad was both a kindly parent and a world-class rummy. Sober enough during the week, on paydays Malachy McCourt would guzzle away his wages at a pub and, late Friday night, stagger home, penniless. There, while his wife Angela wept and railed, he would coax his sons into singing old patriot tunes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: RELIVING HIS BAD EIRE DAYS | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

Things aren't going so swimmingly for Strug's sister in pharyngeal disadvantage, Kathy Ireland. Authorities busted a sweatshop in New York, where workers were locked in and the sprinkler system was broken. The clothes made there for K Mart bore Ireland's label. "I will not, and K Mart will not, tolerate unscrupulous practices in the manufacture of my products," said the swimsuit model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 16, 1996 | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

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