Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stepping inside Palmer Dixon Courts yesterday, the Fighting Irish must have thought they were in Heaven. The Irish walked in to see green courts, green nets, green curtains, green vents, two green walls, green pads on the wall and, of course, green tennis balls...
However, there was only one problem on this St. Patrick's Day: the Irish didn't have any luck...
Yesterday, the Harvard men's tennis team improved its record to 2-0 on the young season. capturing a 7-2 victory over the Fighting Irish...
...incident was the latest squall in an increasingly stormy relationship between London and Dublin. Like the weather over the Irish Sea, ties between the two countries can be subject to abrupt changes. The sun came out in 1985, when the Anglo-Irish accord was signed, in which Britain granted Ireland a voice in the affairs of Northern Ireland. Since then a series of controversial British decisions has drawn complaints from Ireland...
...Irish anger began to surge in late January, when the Thatcher government announced that, for reasons of "national security," it would not prosecute a group of officers of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, Northern Ireland's predominantly Protestant police force. The officers were involved in the R.U.C.'s alleged shoot-to-kill policy of 1982 and 1983. An official inquiry on the case has gone unpublished...