Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post in largely Irish Mission Hill. Flynn was praised by a succession of local leaders...
...experts and kidnapers from the I.R.A.'s militant Provisional wing-had broken out of the compound considered until then to be perhaps the most escape proof in Europe. The biggest prison break in British history triggered one of the largest manhunts ever seen on either side of the Irish border. In Dublin, Irish authorities ordered increased surveillance of the rugged border area to prevent fugitives from reaching traditional sanctuaries in the counties of Sligo, Donegal, Monaghan, Leitrim and Louth. In Ulster, security forces threw a tight five-mile cordon around the prison, while thousands of soldiers and police blocked...
...Motherwell's color is never descriptive. Even the more recent arrivals on his palette, like the soft greens and grayed browns of "Irish" paintings like Riverrun, 1972, an homage to Joyce's meditations on Dublin's river, the Liffey, soon acquire this fixed quality. Color in Motherwell is not an adjective, but a noun...
...winners celebrate the past as history; the losers mourn it as fate. Anglo-Irish Author William Trevor is familiar with both perspectives, although he understands as well as any contemporary writer that the defeated, the shelved and the slightly batty make better fiction: the lonely duffers in The Old Boys (1964); the washed-up crew of residents in The Boarding House (1965); Lady Dolores, the antiadultery crusader of The Love Department (1966). Trevor's characters are not underdogs in any social or political sense. They can be obtuse, thoughtless, silly and casually cruel. His style, fully displayed in this...
...curse of Cassandra-to speak terrible truths but not to be believed-is a burden of Fools of Fortune. Trevor's ninth and most despairing novel covers half a century of Irish troubles. One of the characters even loses the gift of speech. She is the daughter of an Irish father and an English mother whose forced separation suggests the rift between their closely related countries. The child, Imelda, is even more symbolic of the price exacted by violence and hatred. Rendered mute and autistic by horror, she is a pathetic representative of the past, present and future. Says...