Word: irishness
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...reports on the rapid recovery of the President from abdominal surgery would have us believe that the luck of the Irish still holds. But his health is not explainable just in terms of luck. We should consider ourselves fortunate indeed to have a man of old-fashioned virtues and moral strength leading our nation. J. Robert Hall Veronia...
...gathering of U.S. lawyers, Thatcher said that the media should refrain from giving terrorists publicity. Last week her government pressured the independent British Broadcasting Corp. into canceling a televised documentary on Northern Ireland because it featured an interview with a politician who is allegedly a leader of the Irish Republican Army...
...protests were directed at the governing board of the BBC. The previous week, after objections from Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Home Secretary, Leon Brittan, the board had canceled a television documentary that featured interviews with Irish extremists, including an alleged leader of the Irish Republican Army. Thatcher, the target of an I.R.A. bomb last October, had declared a month ago that terrorists should be denied the "oxygen of publicity...
...film’s protagonist is an Irish-American known only as She (Joan Allen) living in London with her husband, the weary and unfaithful politician Anthony (Sam Neill). At a party, She encounters He (Simon Abkarian), a Lebanese chef, and the two embark on an affair that forces an assessment of themselves both as lovers and in terms of their religious and political identities...
This is not to say that not everything abroad is peachy keen: xenophobia, racism, and homophobia were far more prevalent in my Irish town, welcoming its first wave of immigrants, than at Harvard. Elsewhere, my friends saw poverty and repression. Our eyes were opened to evils beyond the ones we knew. One can’t see these things and remain unaffected...