Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Irish Republic, an irate Prime Minister Charles Haughey ordered an independent investigation of the case on Dublin's side of the border. Over recent weeks, the Republic has grown mistrustful of British judicial and security procedures. The situation was not helped by allegations that McAnespie, who had done low-level electioneering for Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican army, had regularly been harassed at the same checkpoint. Haughey's decision infuriated British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who declared that Dublin had no right to inquire into "matters north of the border...
Wilfred Thesiger was born in June 1910 in a mud building in Addis Ababa. His father was the British Minister to Abyssinia (now Ethiopia), and his mother, an Irish beauty, seems to have had a knack for prophetic understatement. "My mother," says Thesiger early in this autobiography, "always maintained that the first words I said were 'Go yay,' which meant 'Go away...
...maiden Commons speech, Livingstone angered the House by accusing British security services of atrocities in Northern Ireland, one of his favorite issues. In November, after a bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army killed eleven people in the town of Enniskillen, Livingstone caused another furor by saying Ulster was Britain's Viet Nam and predicting that the I.R.A. would win the conflict. Livingstone defied Kinnock by demanding that Britain cut its defense budget and withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. By warning of a civil war within the party, he embarrassed Kinnock into dropping plans for a review...
Since 1985 the historic treaty of cooperation between London and Dublin has alleviated their mutual distrust over Northern Ireland. Irish and British security forces have worked closely to restrict the operations of the Irish Republican Army. Last week two decisions in Britain jolted that newly forged relationship...
...Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey warned of "serious implications" for security cooperation, which he said "can only be conducted on a basis of < mutual trust." Worried by the souring relationship, Britain agreed to an Irish request for an emergency meeting this week...