Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Police now believe that an armed gang had driven up to the isolated church in rural Armagh County, just one mile from the border with the Irish Republic, and opened fire with pistols and automatic rifles. The killers escaped, presumably into the Irish Republic. Cartridges found on the scene link the killings to Dominic ("Mad Dog") McGlinchey, 29, a former member of the Irish Republican Army and still Ireland's most wanted terrorist. As police north and south of the Irish border went on major alert, Roman Catholics braced for a retaliatory attack by Protestant terrorists...
...with more undercover antiterrorist patrols by police and the elite Special Air Service. In an attempt to lure the Unionists back into the Assembly, Prior also invited four of Northern Ireland's political parties to talks on security. Meanwhile, in a radio interview, the Prime Minister of the Irish Republic, Garret Fitzgerald, a Catholic, seemed close to tears as he denounced the murders at the Elim church as a "sacrilegious act of blasphemy...
...sophisticated pro-style passing offense. Kosar is 6 ft. 5 in. tall and favors throwing to a tight end named Glenn Dennison, who has not only good hands but noticeably large ones. The Hurricanes have an ungigantic but fierce defense. Like Nebraska, Notre Dame was far bigger, but the Irish could not score against Miami. "I would rather play Harvard," says Bob Devaney...
...case, the U.S. forces claimed the solitary confinement was to protect a prisoner from fellow detainees: former Grenadian Justice Minister Kendrick Radix spent a night in one of the plywood boxes as prisoner No. 1,120. "The rain came in the night and I was drenched," complained the Irish-educated lawyer, still indignant. "I need a vacation." Indeed, in the span of three three weeks, Radix, 41, has been imprisoned twice-first by the ad hoc Revolutionary Military Council (R.M.C.), the junta that overthrew and killed Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, then (for "spreading bad will among the people...
Flynn, 44, was born and raised in the Irish working-class district of South Boston. In his early days as a state legislator, he was an outspoken conservative, opposing school busing and the Equal Rights Amendment and supporting the death penalty. Though he is still against busing, he has moved to the center on most other issues. Both he and King vowed that they would shift the city's resources away from the downtown development that has been favored by retiring Mayor Kevin White and back into Boston's long-neglected neighborhoods. Softening his populism with tiny doses...