Word: leitrim
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...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...
...public announcement, on three successive Sundays, of intention to wed. Silinonte persuaded a diocesan official to take him to the Roman Catholic archives in Queens, where he found the 19th century ledgers stored in a corner. On the page was the elder O'Neil's place of birth: County Leitrim, Ireland. "You have to be stubborn," says Silinonte...
...Europe. The biggest prison break in British history triggered one of the largest manhunts ever seen on either side of the Irish border. In Dublin, Irish authorities ordered increased surveillance of the rugged border area to prevent fugitives from reaching traditional sanctuaries in the counties of Sligo, Donegal, Monaghan, Leitrim and Louth. In Ulster, security forces threw a tight five-mile cordon around the prison, while thousands of soldiers and police blocked roads, combed fields and searched houses throughout the week. It was, said one police officer involved in the search, "like trying to corner a pack of wolves...
Offered: Plants & Equipment. For the foreign industrialist who brings his know-how to one of the underdeveloped western counties-Clare, Galway, Mayo, Roscommon, Donegal, Kerry, Sligo or Leitrim-the Irish government will buy a site, build a plant for him, train his workers and pay half the cost of plant equipment. Elsewhere, Ireland will grant two-thirds of the cost of the plant up to $140,000. In addition, foreign enterprises will be freed from income taxes on export profits for at least five years, excused from 67% of local property taxes for at least seven years. Dublin will guarantee...
...most unlucky prisoners were Daniel McKiernan and Peter Mitchell, farm boys from Drumdiffer. County Leitrim. Daniel McKiernan had been a member of the Republican Army. Brooding on the risks he was running undermined his courage. He asked his friend Peter Mitchell to help him dispose of the rifles he had been ordered to hide. Just as the two boys were dumping their contraband in a bog the Drumdiffer constabulary closed in on them. The Military Tribunal again was not unduly severe. The boys were released in $250 personal bail on a pledge never to have anything more to do with...