Word: irelands
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...dramatist, Ireland's Hugh Leonard tracks the minute hand of life. As the clock ticks, his characters fill the passing hour with the tang of Irish talk and freshets of Irish humor, with the surge of sex and the ache of love, with religious piety and tipsy poetry. Leonard's people feel the sting of remorse, offer the balm of compassion, and embrace the abiding little ironies of the condition called human...
...meanwhile, is advertising in its Christmas catalogue an auto that puts the fictional solid-gold Cadillac to shame-a two-seat DeLorean sports car electroplated in 24-karat gold. Cost: $85,000. A new company founded by former General Motors Executive John DeLorean will build the car in Northern Ireland. Gushes the American Express ad: "The car of the future is so spectacular that it surpasses the imagination...
...three killings pointed to an ugly new shift in the enduring pattern of violence in Northern Ireland: the mostly Protestant Ulster police, or those suspected of affiliation with them, have become more prominent targets for the I.R.A. than the British troops. Since 1969, when the current wave of troubles began, 334 British soldiers have been killed, vs. 243 members of local police or militia. But lately the ratio has been changing: of 61 people to die violently so far this year, only seven were British army regulars, while 15 were locally recruited police or members of the Ulster Defense Regiment...
...Ireland's Roman Catholic primate, Tomas Cardinal O'Fiaich, has met five times with British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Humphrey Atkins to discuss the issue, but the talks have made little if any progress. The British view concessions as a surrender to I.R.A. demands; the I.R.A. has reinforced that position by killing a score of off-duty prison guards. Yet until the H-block issue is resolved, the I.R.A. has a propaganda point as its terrorists persist in their increasingly lonely and ugly battle against both the British troops and the Ulster police...
...late as 1848, only 25 names sounded foreign, but by 1855 there were 1420 Irish and 587 Scots here. The Irish had begun settling in 1830, and after the potato famine their ranks swelled. By 1880, there were at least 15,000 first-generation immigrants, including 8366 from Ireland, 3981 from Canada and the West Indies, 1396 from England, 636 from Germany, 169 from Sweden and 36 from Italy...