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Reaction ranged from shock to bitterness to a weary sense of fatalism within governments on both sides of the border. Ireland's Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave said the outrage would "strengthen the resolve of those north and south working for peace." Privately, ministers of his government were deeply troubled by the prospect of unreasoned, violent passions invading the south. At week's end they were still struggling to understand who had done...
...government in which Catholics as well as Protestants truly share power. A few days after the appointment, representatives from Britain, the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland sat down for their first, historic talks on a Council of Ireland. But the robust figure who made it possible was absent: Wil liam Whitelaw had a new war on his hands...
...little ditty is now being sung in Catholic pubs all over Northern Ireland. It is also burning the ears of Irish Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave, as well it might. Last week the militant Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army pulled a canny caper in downtown Dublin that made a mockery of Cosgrave's get-tough policy on the I.R.A...
...from Frankfurt. Her voyage to Ireland originated in Cyprus and included stops in the Mediterranean. There was evidence that the arms had been loaded at Tripoli. British intelligence alerted the Irish government to watch for the vessel. The trap staged by Irish forces indicated that new Irish Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave plans to be at least as tough on the Provos as was his predecessor, Jack Lynch...
...Prime Minister will be Liam Cosgrave, 52, leader of the Fine Gael and a Minister in two previous governments. The mild-mannered son of the first head of government of the Irish Free State, Cosgrave, in the words of one independent politician, "has one of the cleanest pairs of hands in Irish politics...