Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With such friends, who needs enemies? That was the question that dogged left- lean- ing Irish Opposition Leader Charles Haughey last week after Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi told Irish television viewers that he hoped Haughey would win next year's general election. Gaddafi's remarks were seen as a boost for Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald's flagging coalition, which trails in the polls...
...House of Commons was packed and restive as Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe rose to make a statement. Just four hours before, a London criminal court jury had convicted Jordanian Terrorist Nezar Hindawi, 32, of plotting to blow up an El Al jet by using his Irish girlfriend, Ann Murphy, as a human time bomb. Testimony at the trial had strongly implicated Syrian officials, and Howe was expected to issue a stinging denunciation of the Damascus government...
...jury at the Old Bailey criminal court convicted Nezar Hindawi, 32, earlier yesterday of trying to smuggle a bomb onto the plane at Heathrow airport in the hand luggage of his pregnant Irish girlfriend...
...CATHOLIC school boys and girls, the charms of blasphemy and dirty words never wear off. Joyce might have thought he was attacking his old Irish Catholicism in his novels, but Irish Catholics, who've made him a national hero since, know better. Perhaps it's single-sex schooling that does the trick...
...this film, however, Durang's heresy is dull, and his perversions are pat. When this set of plays appeared in Dublin, the Irish, who always celebrate really good sacrilege with a riot, responded with a universal yawn. Some Boston Catholics are more uptight about Durang, and they make the controversy that sells the tickets. But controversy can't hold up a chaotic script whose absurdity is less than comic...