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MURDERED. Denis Donaldson, 56, former official in Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, who in December admitted he had been spying on the I.R.A. for the British since the mid-1980s; by gunfire; at his family's holiday home in County Donegal, Ireland. The I.R.A., which renounced political violence last year but has had a policy of killing suspected informants, denied responsibility for the murder...
...known supporter of terrorism or anything so vile. Perhaps we should look more carefully at gifts that have been made to Harvard over the years from people who could also have supported dictatorial regimes like those in the Middle East or Latin America, or insurgent causes like Northern Irish Republicanism. In the case of Islamic studies, however, it seems as though the very idea that one supports a better understanding of Islam suggests that one is trying to do something evil.The ubiquitous innuendo which is stirred up around the support of Islamic studies at Harvard accords with the fact that...
...DIED. JOHN MCGAHERN, 71, Irish novelist whose early assaults on Ireland's religious and sexual hypocrisy were long shunned at home; in Dublin. After his 1965 novel The Dark was banned and he was forced out of his teaching job, McGahern moved abroad, living in England, France and the U.S. It was only after he resettled in his native Leitrim in the early 1970s that Ireland began to cherish his work, recognizing itself in his quiet portraits of a country riven by the pressures of the modern world...
Burly Chicago guy: "Did you party with the Irish last night, Mario...
...social conditions--to look at the why of crime where CSI has peered through its microscope at the how. NBC's The Black Donnellys, debuting in the fall, comes from the writers of the Oscar-winning message movie Crash and tells the story of four brothers drawn into the Irish Mob. "They live in a world against impossible odds," says co-creator Bobby Moresco, who loosely based the show, with co-creator Paul Haggis, on his New York City childhood...