Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Playing less than a half each in Harvard's warm-up against the Irish national squad. Ferry and Standley combined for 14 points and displayed a fair amount of flashy ball handling. "It felt good," says Ferry, "because we already seem to know where each other is on the court...
This is a misapprehension on the order of considering Picasso merely a Spanish painter, or Joyce a parochial Irish Catholic writer. The best British composers speak an international language-inflected, to be sure, by characteristic clipped accents and at times marked by a stiff-upper-lip emotional restraint-as surely as do the German Beethoven, the Italian Verdi, the Frenchman Debussy or the Russian Tchaikovsky: men who transcended the boundaries of their birth and made fellow countrymen out of the world's citizens...
HARVARD BASKETBALL 67, IRISH NATIONALS 62--"Oh, Ferry/shows no Mercy...
...most promising approaches to working out an eventual settlement in Ireland: the hopes of Garret FitzGerald, who became Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland in June, to pave the way for eventual unification of Ulster and the republic. FitzGerald would like to see the establishment of an Anglo-Irish council, including Protestant and Catholic representatives from Ulster and members of the British and Irish parliaments, to promote better relations between Britain, Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. This week FitzGerald is scheduled to meet with Thatcher at 10 Downing Street. As they talk, Londoners will be nervously keeping...
...came into the land of harsh, brooding mountains and the eternal, green-blue Irish Sea, a princess and stranger. But she charmed the countrymen thoroughly and soon they welcomed her as their princess and friend. The trip to Wales last week by Prince Charles, 32, and Diana, Princess of Wales, 20, was their first formal appearance since their marriage last July and marked Diana's official debut on the job. The threeday, 400-mile journey by train coach and Rolls-Royce, was a wearying one, but it never showed on the royal brows. Diana plunged into her new duties...