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...Ardagh and Clonmacnoise in the Irish Republic, has condemned the "sick charade of guns and volleys fired over dead bodies at funerals." After two young Protestant police officers were killed last week by an I.R.A. land mine, Tomás Cardinal O'Fiaich, the Primate of All Ireland, declared: "This act must be called by its proper name of murder. I plead for an immediate end to this cruel and senseless carnage...
...Minister Margaret Thatcher welcomed "the decision of some prisoners or their families to end this distressing protest," in the words of a British official. The hard-line position may have paid off for the moment, but the H-block crisis has further polarized Catholic and Protestant factions in Northern Ireland and revived anti-British feeling in the Irish Republic. Says Bishop Edward Daly of Derry: "Whether the hunger strike crumbles or not, a lot has been lost...
...other complaints about how Harvard has changed seem to echo his fears about the modernization of Ireland, the other isolated and traditional place he has known. "Students will ask me with a smirk if there was truly a time when there were parietal rules--when you couldn't have a young woman in your room with the door closed, when you had to sign in. They ask why people ever put up with that sort of thing. But in those days the gates to the Houses were always wide open, and there was no fear of being mugged. I think...
When Bobby Sands died on hunger strike in March, he was not the first Irishman to be carried out of jail in a coffin; the continuing troubles in the North of Ireland provide a link, however tragic, to the country's history. "The violence is rooted in a very long tradition," Kelleher says, but he adds there have been new developments. "Up to this point, the violence has been a recurrent thing. The outbursts would last for one or two years and then subside," he says. The current troubles have been going on since 1968, though, and "the amount...
...hunger strikers in Northern Ireland and the members of everybody's favorite "independent trade union" in Poland have behind them the obvious power of ideals. They do not face the cruel dilemma which America's labor leaders must now confront...