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...major New York stage production since 1850, Anna Bolena is a bel canto curio revived to enable Sills to complete her long-planned and justly famed Donizetti trilogy. As with the other queens of the Tudor era, Elizabeth I in Roberto Devereux and the Queen of Scots in Maria Stuarda, Sills proves again that she is a singing actress without peer. Stage Director Tito Capobianco gives her full rein: she even takes final leave of her lord and mate Henry VIII by giving him a stinging slap in the face that is a triumph of histrionics over history...
...Maria, now 25, was more than a guerrilla groupie. University educated, multilingual, pretty, and with plenty of public relations savvy, she was one of the I.R.A.'s better front agents. Then after a year she fell out of love with the Provo leadership and defected to write this kiss-and-tell book about the men who have been blowing Ireland apart...
Dave O'Connell, the Provisional I.R.A.'s political-military swing man, took Maria along as interpreter on an arms-buying trip to Europe. Their mission began as Irish low comedy and ended in fiasco. In Amsterdam their cover was blown, their planeload of Czech bazookas, rocket launchers and hand grenades was impounded, and Maria and Dave lammed out just ahead of the cops. She returned to Dublin a celebrity-too much so for the taste of Sean MacStiofain, the transplanted Englishman who was then the Provisional I.R.A.'s chief of staff. Maria McGuire hated the dour, puritanical...
Growing disenchanted with the bloodshed, Maria left last year after the Proves' short-lived truce with the British army broke down and the I.R.A. went back on the offensive. On Friday, July 21, 1972-forevermore "Bloody Friday" on the Belfast calendar-the city was hit by 20 bombs in a single hour...
...know many members of the Provisional movement consider me a traitor. But for me the ultimate betrayal would be silence," she writes, insisting that her quarrel with the Proves is over their method, not their aim of driving the British out of Ireland. Nonetheless, Maria's defection and the vindictive wrath of the I.R.A. have effectively deprived her of the chance of living safely in her OWn Country. "Curt Prendergast