Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beginning with Sean Connery in 1963's Dr. No. Connery played the suave Agent 007 seven times, as did Roger Moore; George Lazenby played him once. For Bond's next appearance, in The Living Daylights, which begins filming in London next month, Producer Albert Broccoli had selected the debonair, Irish-born Pierce Brosnan, star of TV's Remington Steele, after the NBC series was canceled. When Steele was renewed two months later, however, Brosnan had to bow out. So Welshman Timothy Dalton, 38, who has played Shakespeare as well as gracing such sudsy TV mini-series as Mistral's Daughter...
Though designed for foreigners, the course would be an eye-opener to most Americans, who rarely reflect on the quantity of slang and colloquialisms they use. Even the President talks about making some foreign government "say uncle" (an expression from the Irish anacol, meaning mercy). Non-slang can baffle by its seeming want of logic. Is a billboard a board on which you stick a bill? Jingle? "Is that an Irish song?" a student asked. "What does it mean," another wondered, "to kick...
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher received a phone call from Ronald Reagan last week that she said "delighted" her. The President told Thatcher the Senate had approved a treaty with Britain that would make it easier to extradite suspected Irish Republican Army terrorists. The treaty states that suspects accused of murder, kidnaping, bombing or voluntary manslaughter can no longer avoid deportation by claiming that their actions were "politically motivated...
...enrolled in "Ulster Clubs," Protestant cells formed over the past year to challenge the agreement. The Republic's decision two weeks ago to continue its ban on divorce only confirmed a Protestant sense of distance from their neighbors to the south. "There is nothing that attracts me toward the Irish Republic," complains Billy Stevenson, chairman of the Castlereagh Ulster Club in east Belfast. "The present situation under the Anglo-Irish agreement is like living with in-laws who don't want...
...dissent gathered new intensity two weeks ago, on the day the 78-seat Northern Ireland Assembly at Stormont was due to close under orders from Britain. To dramatize their rejection of the Anglo-Irish accord, the Rev. Ian Paisley and members of his Democratic Unionist Party refused to leave the assembly hall. Finally, as the sit-in entered its eleventh hour, police moved in among the blue-leather benches and unceremoniously evicted the militant Protestants by force. That set off a full-scale fracas on the steep steps of the white-stone building. "Don't come crying...