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...known as the H-Blocks, Long Kesh, the Cages, Thatcher's Breakers Yard. Northern Ireland's notorious Maze prison drew more grim nicknames - and housed more paramilitary prisoners - than any other jail in Western Europe. Its last inmates were released under the terms of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which laid the foundation for an end to sectarian violence in the British province. And after bulldozers razed most of the former prison buildings last year, the site where Bobby Sands and nine other Republican militants died in a hunger strike in 1981 became little more than an abandoned relic...
...sings, reflecting on the overall idea that Elle wouldn’t be Elle without her pink ensembles and her dog Bruiser and that you can achieve anything without sacrificing yourself in the process. But Paulette’s ode to Ireland is so random that it’s a wonder it got past the first draft—though it does create a plausible foundation for a later, no-less random attempt at Riverdance.“Legally Blonde” lets a girl have it all. She can wear blue like it’s pink...
...Other countries make it much easier for their citizens to vote from afar. In Sweden, Spain and Ireland, citizens can simply show up at their country's embassy or consulate on election day and vote. "A Swede abroad just goes to their consulate and gets their ballot, it's very simple and there isn't very much red tape to it," says Mansson. Why doesn't the United States do this? "The federal government provides that states administer the elections, and the states have the procedures and legislation in place to carry out election processes," explains Polli Brunelli, director...
...places like Ennis, a town in southwest Ireland, immigrants are beginning to claim those assets for themselves. Like Lucan, the town?s population has also radically diversified over the past decade. Schools have shifted gears accordingly, setting aside a minimum of 5% of places to foreign-born students. The town's Irish language school, Gaelscoil Mhíchíl Cíosóg, surpassed the figure this year, with 10% of its admissions made up of children of immigrant parents - Nigerian, Polish, Dutch, Ghanaian and Spanish among them. Initially, says principal Dónal O hAinif...
...targets like these continue to be pursued nationwide, it may, in fact, be the new Ireland that helps this old language grow. Michal Boleslav Mechura, a 33-year-old resident of Dublin who immigrated from the Czech Republic ten years ago, became fluent in Irish and finds it useful in his own integration process. "People don't realize I'm not from here when I speak in Irish," Mechura says. "A lot of Irish people who speak Irish speak it as a second language and so we are all on the same footing. I fit in better in Irish...