Word: irished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hold it. Saroyan's Armenians are no more sentimentalized than the Jews of Sholem Aleichem, the English of Charles Dickens, the Scots of Robert Burns, the Irish of Sean O'Casey or the Americans of Mark Twain. Read My Name Is Aram again, please...
...province of Ulster. Late last week a bomb exploded in the London Hilton Hotel, killing two people, wounding 28, and destroying the glass-and-marble lobby. It was the fifth bombing in or around London in the past two weeks. Scotland Yard believes that radical members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army are responsible for most if not all of the explosions...
...half way between Buckingham Palace and the American embassy, was filled to capacity with late-season tourists. Possibly 100 people were milling around in the lobby when the tragedy took place. Just before noon, a switchboard operator at Associated Newspapers got a call from a man with an Irish accent warning that "a bomb will go off at the Hilton in ten minutes." Squad cars arrived at the hotel, but police were still trying to decide how to clear the area when, according to Anthony Peters, who manages the British Airways desk, "there was an almighty explosion. The whole place...
Boston's stubborn resistance to busing is largely based in Irish-Catholic working-class neighborhoods such as South Boston and Charlestown, where whites want little to do with what they perceive as the alien and threatening culture of inner-city blacks. Says Maurice Gillen, a meter reader for Boston Edison and a community leader...
...party, Fianna Fail (Militia of Destiny). In 1932, the party triumphed in elections for the legislature, the Dail, and Dev took power as head of the government. He quickly set about shaving away the vestiges of British power, including the annual payments to former British landowners for their expropriated Irish holdings. He was also forced to break with those who demanded more extreme actions, and in 1936 banned the I.R.A...