Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson defeated Washington Irish, a club squad, 10-6, in the first round of the Commonwealth Cup. Nathan Koenig connected on two penalty kicks and Chris Stefanoni ran five meters to tally...
...friends, the baby-faced Gerard Steenson, 29, a founder of the terrorist Irish National Liberation Army, was known as "Pretty Boy." But when he was buried in Belfast last week, some recalled his other nickname: "Dr. Death." Steenson, gunned down as he and an associate drove through West Belfast, had been accused of killing at least half a dozen people over the past decade...
Steenson, the latest victim of a feud that has left ten people dead, was apparently murdered by rival INLA members. Founded in 1975 as an offshoot of the Irish Republican Army, the INLA began to be ripped apart by a power struggle late last year. With no end in sight, the vicious squabble threatens to destroy the band, a goal that until now has eluded authorities...
...They have improved with no specific policy but with individual statements of his," Fineran said. "In his Innaugural Address in 1984 Flynn said his administration would not tolerate racial hostility. For a white Irish Catholic to be willing to say that means a lot to the public. It has set a very good, positive tone...
Just as the moral center of Hugo's Les Miserables is Valjean, so the driving force of the stage show is Colm Wilkinson. An Irish singer largely untrained as an actor until he originated the role in London, Wilkinson, 43, has a superb pop-rock voice, whether in the assertive Who Am I or the wistful Bring Him Home. Unexpectedly, he encompasses the outsize moral stature of Valjean, making believable both his general saintliness and his outbursts of animal ferocity. Only one other member of the original cast is in the U.S. company: Frances Ruffelle, who as a tomboyish adolescent...