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...Knock, Ireland, where 15 people saw the Virgin a century ago, the lines of the faithful lengthened dramatically after Pope John Paul II paid a visit to the shrine in 1979. Since then, attendance has doubled, to 1.5 million people each year. To handle the influx, a new international airport was opened at Knock...
...Northern Ireland the activities of the I.R.A. and Protestant extremists have been more lethal, taking 89 lives this year. But as a government spokesman explained, "It doesn't make news to bomb in Northern Ireland. Fire bombs in London at Christmas cause lots of publicity...
...labor policies. France could point to a firm timetable for establishing a single currency for the European Community's other 11 members. Germany, among the most Euro-minded of the Community states, could hail the birth of a "European union." And the most impoverished brethren in the group -- Greece, Ireland, Spain and Portugal -- had won the promise of money transfers from the rich states to the poor...
...LIFE OF IRELAND (Collins...
...cast members, from Dublin's Abbey Theater, are amazingly fresh and spontaneous in roles that half of them have been playing since April 1990, when the play premiered in Ireland. Yet the performances also have the delicacy and nuance that comes from long consideration. They suggest all the tacit tolerance, the willful blindness, that makes family life possible, and also the tragic inevitability that even inside a household there will be competition, and some survivors will prove fitter than others...