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Mayor Low of Brooklyn proclaimed the bridge's opening day, May 24, 1883. The People's Day. Schools and businesses were closed, and everyone was happy except for some militant Irishmen, who discovered that May 24 was also Queen Victoria's birthday...
Frank Buckley and Brendon Tucker led the Drogheda team with two tries each. Pat Walsh, Kicker for the Irishmen, accounted for all their conversions and the one penalty kick...
Though he had 15,000 troops to call on, the weapon that Whitelaw chose to use was persuasion. "Some of you may think that I have been making too many concessions to this or that group," he told Northern Irishmen recently, "or that I have been seeing more of some people than others; that I have listened too readily to some and not to others; but I can say I have shown that there is on all sides a real demand for peace." Even though some of the grottier Protestants still denigrate him as "Willie Whitewash," moderate Protestants accept...
...remained that Ireland outside the EEC would have to "plow the lonely furrow of the Atlantic," as one pro-Marketeer put it. Nearly two-thirds of Irish exports go to Britain, and they would face a prohibitive tariff wall if that country, as is now expected, joined the EEC. Irishmen stand to benefit from higher Continental prices for their beef and lamb, and from an influx of industries, mostly American, seeking a European base. More than 200 companies indicated that they would invest in Ireland if the referendum was favorable...
...Harvard now invests in oil, or "black gold") because thereby the savages of Africa could be led into the paths of Christianity and be ensured a level of living which was not only infinitely superior to that left behind in Africa, but even greater than that enjoyed by contemporary Irishmen. Similarly, those of us who have lived in Britain where there is an active anti-apartheid movement have frequently heard the standard response of South African investors that South African Blacks are the best fed, best clothed and best educated native Africans south of the Sahara. All of which...