Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pick up last year's nascent revolt in the high schools. Its coverage of Northern Ireland has been excellent from the beginning of the struggle last winter. Northern Ireland may not seem like radical news to many, but Bernadette Devlin is the starting point of much conversation in Boston Irish homes, working class South Boston or super lace curtain Chestnut Hill...
Barring any unseen provocations by some of Ulster's highly opinionated-which, in that province, is like barring life itself-Northern Ireland should be free for the next month or so of the kind of fighting and battling that took place this summer. The major Orange and Irish holidays for 1969 are over and the summer's troubles were provoked by celebration of these partisan holidays...
...strife between Britain and Ireland. Under this plan, Ireland would have had a parliamentary government autonomous in domestic affairs, but impotent in foreign affairs, and it would have its capital at Dublin. Only two factions in Ireland were really opposed to this idea; the extremists who wanted an independent Irish Republic, and the protestant politicians in six northeastern counties-Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Derry, and Tyrone...
These counties had received a large influx of protestant settlers in the 17th century. These settlers were not unlike the American colonists of the same period and the attitude of the Ulster settlers towards the native Irish was much like the attitude of Americans towards Indians. The natives were a nuisance and were subhuman, furthermore they were Catholic...
PAIRING OFF, by Julian Moynahan. The book masquerades as a novel but is more like having a nonstop non sequilur Irish storyteller around-which may, on occasion, be more welcome than well-made fiction...