Word: mazes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he formed his government earlier this month, Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald was bitterly critical of the British government. Reason: Whitehall's unyielding approach to the members of the Irish Republican Army who were conducting hunger strikes in the Maze Prison near Belfast. But last week FitzGerald declared he was much more sympathetic to Whitehall's tactics. That turnabout led the London Times to editorialize: "There has been a remarkable improvement in relations between the British and the Irish governments over the past few days...
...threat to the new government lies in Northern Ireland. I.R.A. Militants Kieran Doherty and Paddy Agnew, both 26, won seats to the Dáil in last month's election, but neither has been able to attend. They are prisoners in the H-block of Ulster's Maze Prison, where Doherty is now in the seventh week of a hunger strike. His death or Agnew's resignation would cause by-elections that could be won by Haughey and his Fianna Fail (Band of Destiny) party, thereby weakening FitzGerald's government still more. That possibility has forced...
...outbreak of Protestant terrorism, still refuses to grant I.R.A. hunger strikers political-prisoner status. Late last week, the strikers appeared to give ground somewhat, offering to drop their insistence on special status for themselves if their demands for improved prison conditions were applied to all inmates at the Maze...
...well. Shelley Evans's Isabelle is a bit weepy, echoing more of the Bronte sisters than Shakespeare, though the role itself is constantly undermined by the script--her righteous commitment to her virginity seeming vicious at best. Nela Wgman, as Angelo's disheartened betrothed, seems similarly lost in the maze, giving a slightly off-centered performance...
Sean Sands, brother of Bobby Sands--the first Irish Republican Army (IRA) hunger striker, who died after 66 days without food--gave the audience detailed descriptions of atrocities allegedly committed by the British against his brother and other IRA prisoners in the Maze prison, and said that "no man wants to live like that because no dog could live like that...