Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beginning that the shots were fired from outside the embassy, accused the British of falsifying the evidence. Not surprisingly, Libya announced that pistols and ammunition had been discovered in the British embassy in Tripoli, a charge Britain denied. Gaddafi repeated his previous threat to resume Libyan aid to Irish Republican Army terrorists as a means of punishing Britain for expelling his diplomats, but promised that there would be "no danger at all" to the Britons living in Libya...
...call for Irish unity is rebuffed
Overhead, one of the 18th century frescoes on the ceiling of St. Patrick's Hall depicted King Henry II receiving the surrender of Irish chieftains in 1171. Beneath the figures, in the gilded hall of Dublin Castle, which was once the seat of British rule in Ireland, politicians from the North and South gathered last week to sign the long-awaited report of the New Ireland Forum, a promised blueprint for the future of the troubled land. Unfortunately, the forum's call for new solutions had already evoked a curt dismissal. Early that morning, Dublin residents awoke...
...eleven months, the leaders of three main political parties in the Irish Republic and one overwhelmingly Catholic party in the North had sought fresh alternatives that might lead to Irish unity. The final result of their deliberations, a 42-page, 14,000-word report, is a searching investigation into the island's social, cultural, economic and political relationships. After 41 formal sessions, 56 meetings of party leaders and more than 300 submissions from interested outsiders, the forum condemned the "failed British solutions" to bring stability to Northern Ireland...
...shame that Trevor has declined an excellent opportunity to chronicle one writer's Ireland, that he has shied away from the unabashedly personal and biased tour of Irish writers which this might have been. A journey such as this one, through the uneven evolution of Irish literature, is sorely in need of a provocative guide--a Kenneth Clark figure who would unashamedly saturate the text with the vagaries of personal taste. A Writer's Ireland is, rather, a dry, thorough skimming that leaves us without the real flavor of Ireland that so strongly pervades Trevor's fiction...