Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contra leader now in exile in Miami, Edgar Chamorro, told TIME that the document is based on notes given him a year ago by a "gringo" who arrived as a CIA operative at rebel headquarters in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. He was described by Chamorro as an Irishman who fought for the U.S. in the Korean War and admired the "psychological operations" of the Irish Republican Army. Chamorro printed up 2,000 copies of the manual and handed out 200 of them to his troops, but then he had second thoughts. He revised the rest by censoring out references to "criminals...
ALTHOUGH WILLIAM TREVOR now lives in the South-West of England, he was born and raised an Irishman. His novels and short stories are infused with a powerful concern and sympathy for the landscape and people of Ireland--especially for its writers. Who better than Trevor, then, to guide us on a tour of Irish writers and their evocations of landscape? It is a tour which takes the reader from the earliest murmurs of monks and gypsies (anonymous stories told long before the introduction of the English to Ireland) to the contemporary voices of young Irish and Northern Irish poets...
...Irishman worth his bonnet would think of celebrating St. Patrick's Day without a shamrock. Least of all the 700 lads of the 1st Battalion Irish Guards, serving with the British Army of the Rhine in West Germany. Since 1965, the happy task of bringing a bit o' the green to the boys of the brigade has gone to Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. This year was no exception. To the stirring strains of the regimental band's bag pipes, fifes and drums, the Queen Mum presented her troops with fresh sprigs of three-leaf clover, which they...
...remarked that a black writer has an advantage because, being black, he has been forced to live in an isolated room in the nation's house, thus when he emerges from that room into the rest of the house, he knows the entire structure. So too for any Irishman, Chinese, Puerto Rican, a member of a minority religion or of none at all. Without a sense of unbelonging, one might never cast a critical eye on the majority culture, which in a way minorities cherish for their difference from...
...ACTORS PLAY their roles dutifully and perceptively, but too often they tend to wail and to repeat the same frenzied gestures. Appearing overwhelmed by their characters' anguish, they give the production a pretentious note of melodrama. As James Tyrone, Kevin Walker seems the archetypal rough-edged Irishman: loving--if slightly clumsy--towards his wife, self-righteous and defensive towards his sons. But his mannerisms and reactions are too stiff and blatant. He gapes to show he's shocked, shouts to show he's angry. He fails to convey Tyrone's appealing undercurrent of charm, or any of his amusing qualities...