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Word: irishness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit: Defrocking A Fraud | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Eddie Pulls a Fast One | 9/22/1987 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Eddie Pulls a Fast One | 9/22/1987 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sitting Duck PATRIOT GAMES | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Duke of Economic Uplift | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

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