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Blessed with a sweetly impudent face, Chuckie looks like the kind of kid a homeroom teacher would put in charge of the class when she had to leave the room. But the I.R.A. is never far from his mind and suffuses nearly everything ! he does. Chuckie delivers the pro-I.R.A. Republican News on his paper route and twirls a baton at the head of an Irish Republican marching band. I.R.A. men in the neighborhood all know him. Chuckie comes from a long line of I.R.A. fighters, from his grandfather, who fought the British in the 1930s, to four...
Even in his pro-I.R.A. neighborhood, John is an exception. Most kids linger on the periphery of war, bystanders steeped in inherited hate, armed mainly with taunts and rocks, whipped into street violence when the I.R.A. feels the need. In Republican families, loyalty to the cause is instilled by grandparents, fathers, aunts; family scrapbooks are filled with snapshots of funerals and marches, and fading newspaper clippings of killings and arrests, not weddings and school recitals. But kids take to the streets primarily because it's "good crack" -- Irish slang for fun. To the kids, throwing stones and bottles...
...Catholic and a car thief, passionately insists he hates the Provos, hates the cops, but he still knows what side of the civil war he is on. He was in the neighborhood of New Lodge the night of the biggest riot in Belfast last August, throwing rocks alongside the pro-I.R.A. teenagers he normally shuns. He makes a distinction between the thrill of joyriding and that of rioting. "Joyriding is for fun," he says earnestly. "Rioting is because you hate...
...bombing further increased British opposition to the planned visit to London this week by members of the Sinn Fein, Ireland's openly pro-I.R.A. political party, for talks on the future of Ulster. After the disco deaths, Thatcher denounced the visit and urged that it be canceled. But Ken Livingstone, the leftist leader of the Greater London Council (the local government of the capital) and would-be host of the Sinn Feiners, refused to withdraw his invitation. Home Secretary William Whitelaw finally banned the visit outright at the request of police, even though some security experts feared that...
...Princess Margaret-who caused a furor in a 1979 visit to the U.S. when she was reported to have called the Irish "pigs"-was persuaded by Thatcher to cancel a proposed trip to Washington scheduled for next week. The reason: fears of further protests and even personal assaults by pro-I.R.A. Americans...