Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blazing, but Fleet Street was overcast. Sports pages throughout the British Isles have been strewn with black crepe. England's footballers were jobbed in the World Cup at the hand of Maradona; the cricket team was embarrassed by India; Irish Featherweight Barry McGuigan was flattened by a substitute from Texas. At Wimbledon, Best Brits Annabel Croft and John Lloyd were sacked straightaway, and here Lloyd was quitting in a manner that seemed to cinch the national sense of failure...
...VOTE NO. In Dublin's Parnell Square, demonstrators waved placards that mockingly read, DOES DIVORCE WORK? ASK LIZ TAYLOR. Not far away, several women, trapped in unhappy marriages, chained themselves to the railings of parliament. Bishops decried the proposal from pulpits, while the country's most influential paper, The Irish Times, defended it. Everywhere, the debate raged on: Should Ireland permit divorce...
Throughout the campaign, supporters of the amendment stressed humanitarian issues, pointing to the suffering of an estimated 70,000 Irish couples saddled with untenable marriages. Under present law, husband and wife must either endure their life together, however unpleasant, or unofficially separate. The latter course brings further problems: since children born of other unions will be illegitimate, inheritances will go not to them but to the legal spouse, however long separated. The amendment would have permitted couples to divorce after they showed that their marriage had failed for five years and that there was no hope for its rescue...
Opponents of the amendment also scored heavily by stressing that divorced spouses could lose their property as well as inheritance rights to their land. That struck a raw nerve in a country that is still 40% agricultural. "If there's one thing an Irish farmer loves more than his wife," said an Irish farmer, "it's his farm...
What's a Jewish boy from Watertown to do amidst all these Irish Catholics? That's the question State Sen. George Bachrach (D-Watertown) has been asking ever since Joseph P. Kennedy II entered the Eighth Congressional District race last fall. You can also bet that the rest of the candidates in the district are wondering the same thing, only with a slightly different ethnic twist, such as: What's a grandson of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 to do when competing against another political icon...