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With peace breaking out all over Northern Ireland, British PM John Major apparently couldn't resist the overtures of the Irish Republican Army and agreed to start holding talks with the IRA's Sinn Fein. Earlier on, Major had insisted that the IRA clarify that their Aug. 31 cease-fire was indeed permanent -- a stance that was widely viewed as unnecessarily obstinate and taken to placate pro-British loyalists. When the IRA's chief antagonists, the Ulster Loyalists, followed up with a similar declaration on Oct. 13, "that gave Major the signal that he could go ahead," says TIME London...
...This great myth of my application has been enjoyed over the cocktail circuit over the past years," says Malin, who is originally from Ireland. "I did apply, just past the deadline...
...world today is substantially better," he said. "People must be feeding tranquilizers to those people in Northern Ireland and Haiti...
Protestant pro-British militants in Northern Ireland laid down their arms in what may be the final act in setting up a durable peace in the region. The paramilitaries announced that they will "universally cease all operational hostilities," effective midnight tonight. They also went further than the I.R.A., which first declared a cease-fire on Aug. 31; the Protestant forces apologized for the hundreds of deaths they caused. The Irish government and the I.R.A. quickly embraced the overture...
Waters agreed that Heaney has long been a notable observer of Ireland's political strife...