Word: irishmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cowardly Act. Even though the I.R.A. boasted that the Aldershot bombers had escaped to safety in Ireland, British police searched the homes of hundreds of Irish nationals living in England and held scores of Irishmen for questioning. Apart from the terrorists, almost everyone appeared to have been shocked by the latest wanton killing of civilians. Even Irish Catholic M.P. Bernadette Devlin, who a few weeks ago angrily stated that she "would not shed a single tear" for any British soldiers killed in revenge, admitted that the act of retaliation had gone "horrifically wrong." In Dublin, Irish Republican Prime Minister John...
...bloodiest disasters since the "troubles" between Ulster's Protestant majority and Catholic minority began almost four years ago. The incident seemed to end almost all hope of a peaceful settlement in Northern Ireland. Not since the executions that followed Dublin's 1916 Easter Rising have Catholic Irishmen, North and South, been so inflamed against Britain and so determined to see Ireland united in one republic at last...
...Unionist Party and the Orange Order have too long exacerbated the differences between Irishmen, Catholic or Protestant. Thank you for telling the truth about the intolerable repression in Northern Ireland and the men who would...
...Dublin ?turned the warrior race into virtual slaves. Catholics were excluded from political life, forbidden to have their own schools and could not buy back land from Protestants, some of whom were sympathetic to their plight. In 1791, Wolfe Tone, a Dublin Protestant, formed a Society of United Irishmen, whose members swore "never to desist in our efforts until we have subverted the authority of England over our country and asserted our independence." His movement failed, and he died in its cause...
...moaned Mondschein. "He's got 16 Irishmen that can run forever, I'Crissake." The Quakers are always worrying...