Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SIMPLE MINDS: STREET FIGHTING YEARS (A&M). Superb rock with a big thematic reach and the rhythm to boost its high ambitions. Belfast Child, a heart-torn vision of the Irish troubles, is more evocative, and more devastating, than a hundred editorials or a thousand speeches...
...Irish tricolor fluttered alongside the hammer-and-sickle at the terminal building where Gorbachev and Haughey talked...
Gorbachev and Haughey, surrounded by their foreign ministers and aides, met in a VIP lounge. Outside hung a vast oil painting of the late John F. Kennedy '40 that commemorated a 1963 visit by the Irish-American president shortly before he was assassinated...
...huge sign declaring "Welcome" in Irish, Russian and English hung over Shannon's sprawling duty-free shop...
Before leaving, the Gorbachevs strolled through the shop, highlighting a new Soviet-Irish connection: Irish airport authorities are organizing the duty-free shopping at Moscow's and Leningrad's airports...