Word: sinn
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...Congo to Connemara, the lesson to Casement was writ plain. He had been raised a Protestant in Ulster, and his next cause, after retirement from the foreign service, was to be his native Ireland, the very exemplar of colonial misrule. In 1913 war clouds were lowering and, as Sinn Fein Guru Tom Clarke prophesied, "England's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity." For years, while a servant of the crown, Casement had nourished a hatred of the English that was to become, in Inglis' word, a "monomania." Now he proclaimed on the eve of World War I that...
...lived quietly in rural Navan, northwest of Dublin, gave periodic television and press interviews and occasionally slipped across the border to harangue I.R.A. units in the field. Theoretically he was a wanted man, but last month he boldly appeared in downtown Dublin at a convention of the Provisional Sinn Fein-the political branch of the I.R.A.-to a standing ovation of 1,000 assembled delegates. "I say with confidence that we can escalate at will," he bragged in a tape-recorded radio interview just before his arrest last week. "If we were not in that position, we would...
...recent bombing of his father-in-law's pub just north of the border. Under O'Malley's authority, the government has prosecuted more than 100 I.R.A. men on various charges, tightened controls on firearms and explosives, and last month raided and padlocked the Provisional Sinn Fein offices in Dublin. This week the government will present to the Irish Parliament a bill that seeks to redefine membership in illegal organizations and put the burden of proof on defendants to disclaim their affiliation with such groups. Says O'Malley: "It's part of the general policy...
Ireland last week voted overwhelmingly to join the European Common Market. The more than 4-to-l margin of approval in a national referendum was a considerable triumph for Prime Minister Jack Lynch, who had campaigned aggressively for a yes vote -and a defeat for Sinn Féin, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, which opposed entry. The vote ensures that Ireland will become a member of the enlarged European Economic Community next Jan. 1, and will not, as Lynch had warned, face a future "lost in the mists of a Celtic twilight...
...voters put economic reality before nationalist rhetoric. In a highly emotional antiMarket campaign, Sinn Féin (Gaelic for "We Ourselves") distributed almost 1,000,000 pamphlets urging voters "once and for all to break the link with England by voting no to England's interests." One antiMarket billboard showed an ugly, cigar-chomping German industrialist saying "We need your little daughter in the Ruhr," a reference to the prospect that unemployed Irish workers might have to seek jobs on the Continent. Labor unions worried about "the oppressive open competition of European industrial society...