Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bereaved relatives huddled in shock and grief at Detroit Metropolitan Airport last month after the Northwest Airlines crash that killed 156 people, the Rev. John Irish, a Roman Catholic priest, was on hand to console them. And, apparently, to con them. Last week Detroit authorities said that Irish, who was dressed in a black suit and clerical collar, was actually a veteran ambulance chaser posing as a priest to steer business to a Florida lawyer named Ronald Brimmell. Says Wayne County Sheriff Robert Ficano: "He would try to win the confidence of victims' families, and then say, 'I have this...
...ELECTION proved that Chicago politics had been changed for ever. Blacks, not Irish or Slavs, are now the dominant ethnic force. But this is not the Chicago machine's last hurrah; it's a chance for a new beginning...
Even in Daley's time there was powersharing between different ethnic groups--the Irish, Italians, Slavs, Poles and Jews. Now that Blacks have joined that group of powerful voting ethnic groups there is an opportunity to over-come national race divisions in America's great melting pot--the city...
...intending harm to its passengers. Ryan singlehanded puts a stop to this nefariousness, suffering a shoulder wound in the process. Next morning in the hospital, he learns that he has rescued the Prince and Princess of Wales from a terrorist attack by the U.L.A., a Maoist offshoot of the Irish Republican Army...
...young lawyer he plunged into Brookline politics with a vengeance, engineering a good-government takeover of the town Democratic committee and then building an organization to expand the fight statewide. There was a strong element of social class to the struggle: well- educated reformers rebelling against old-line Irish ethnic politics. Elected to the state legislature in 1962, Dukakis radiated disdain for backslapping and favor trading while zealously championing causes like no- fault auto insurance...