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Sligo, with its small size and Irish regularsthat include three men from Doolin, a small Irishtown renowned for its Irish music, seems to be theepitome of the no-frills Irish...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pubs Bring Ireland To Hub | 3/17/1999 | See Source »

Sutton robbed banks and engineered his elaborate escapes because that is where the applause was. He was born in Brooklyn's Irishtown at the turn of the century, and there was a point in his teens when a slight tilt of circumstance might have sent him-street-wise and nervy-into one of the gaudier branches of lawyering. He went into armed robbery instead. He would appear at a bank door, wearing the uniform of a messenger or a cop, after the help had begun to arrive but before the doors opened to customers. A colleague or two would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life Savings | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

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