Word: movement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mystified, I held out my hand and she placed a heavy gold medal in it. Upon closer inspection I realized I was holding a Nobel Peace Prize, and the the lady I was speaking with was none other than Mairead Corrigan, one of the founders of the Peace People movement in Ireland. She laughingly told me that she had once unsuccessfully tried to get out of a parking ticket by showing it to a policeman, and then answered my embarrassingly witless, though wellintentioned, questions about Ireland...
What Mairead Corrigan was doing at that party is what the author of Mairead Corrigan, Betty Williams tried, but failed to do in his book. She was explaining the Irish peace movement, but, more importantly, she was trying to dissolve the international apathy about the "Irish question." Richard Deutsch, a Northern Ireland correspondent for Le Figaro, has lived in Belfast for the past five years, which might imply an understanding of the situation. Unfortunately, his book reads like a shallow but prolonged newspaper article; it is informative, but not particularly insightful...
...qualify these generalizations by quoting the people he categorizes, nor does he attempt to make their bitterness understandable with even a thumbnail sketch of the age-old conflict between Irish Catholics and British Protestants. The book's narrative begins in August 1976 with the founding of the Peace People movement, but Deutsch gives only passing, superficial treatment to the history of bloodshed and tragedy...
...transcriptions of his interviews with the movement's three founders, Mairead Corrigan, Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeon, are the best part of the book, but even they are inadequate, merely recording what each has said to hundreds of other journalists...
Monday night, CHUL voted by a lopsided majority of 17-2, with four abstentions, to support the boycott. The movement protests Nestle's practice of supplying Third-World mothers with infant formula which they later find unaffordable or mix with bad water, causing malnutrition in their children...