Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about half the 1980 rate. Last week the government announced the arrest of seven alleged ETA members in Vizcaya province and the seizure of substantial quantities of arms and ammunition. In an attempt to rebuild its popularity, the beleaguered ETA is now adopting the protest tactics of the Irish Republican Army: a group of 14 ETA prisoners last week launched a hunger strike...
Meanwhile, two more young prisoners were at the point of death in the Maze Prison. Kieran Doherty, 25, and Kevin Lynch, 24, who had been convicted of weapons offenses, had both gone more than 60 days without food. Doherty was elected last month to the Irish Parliament, whose membership is open to all Irishmen, north and south. If Doherty and Lynch die, two other I.R.A. prisoners stand ready to join the hunger strikers...
...some 3,000 supporters of the hunger strikers from Newry to Dublin, 70 miles away. Reported Justice Minister James Mitchell: "We have received thousands of calls and messages and letters about Saturday's proposed march, and 98% of them have called upon us to ban it." Nonetheless, the Irish government decided to let the march go on, while ordering in troops to guard against any possible violence. As it happened, there was none...
...performers shine. Inside Tarleton's paunchy "ridiculous old shopkeeper," Bosco releases an intrepid explorer of the intellect. Elliott's "Polish lady" is a feminine blowtorch, and Heald's Gunner is infallibly on key, whether arrogant, cringing or crying drunk. As ever, the superstar is G.B.S., that Irish imp of genius...
...town and country is laced with sundry subplots involving rogues, bullies, detectives, tarts and popinjays, as well as a few sterling characters ranging from a Cantabrigian historian to a gentleman's gentleman, who almost rates a novel by himself. Young Churchill makes an appearance. The suffragists and the Irish troubles and Kaiser Wilhelm crowd in, sometimes hilariously. Edward VII comes across -accurately-as a spoiled, imperious near Nero who nonetheless had a regal way with bridge, economics and foreign policy. The novel ends in 1914, four years after Edward's death, as the honeyed England of Rupert Brooke...