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...audience. You can see this in the bantering palship of Collins and his faithful sidekick Harry Boland (Aidan Quinn), and in the largely antic rivalry that develops between them over the affections of pert Kitty Kiernan (Julia Roberts). It's even there in the characterization of Eamon de Valera, President of the nascent Irish Republic. He's wonderfully played by Alan Rickman as a deeply devious neurasthenic, but he is seen by Jordan as the kind of political sophisticate who has been betraying simplehearted soldiers of rebellion since Errol Flynn (or maybe Douglas Fairbanks...
...brave men of the Irish Republican Army--who, in the last months have largely forsaken violence and demonstrated instead their courage and willingness to make this enormous, ultimate sacrifice--will probably return to their old methods, the methods of Collins and De Valera, soon. A campaign to raise consciousness, a campaign that has already cost six lives, seems to have failed, for the world is too blind, or too lazy, to see the pain of Northern Ireland...
...interests of the British, attempting to make further occupation unprofitable. Certainly they are no more violent than Mugabe's legions, or the guerrillas that fight for the rights of El Salvadorans. At any rate, don't dismiss them as cowards; Bobby Sands proved, as if McSwiney, Connolly. Pearse, de Valera and a hundred others hadn't, that the IRA men are willing to lay down their own lives for a free Ireland. Sands proved something else about the IRA, too-their struggle will not ever stop while their country remains divided and under alien rule. He died knowing he would...
DIED. Varahagiri Venkata Giri, 85, India's Brahman-born fourth President (1969-74), a fierce trade unionist and pacifist dubbed the "genial militant" by the Western press and friend of such revolutionaries as Eamon de Valera and Mohandas Gandhi; of a heart attack; in Madras...
...Some sentimental Irishmen were pleased that, whether deliberately or not, Cosgrave chose the anniversary of Bloomsday for the election: June 16, 1904, was the date on which the events in James Joyce's Ulysses took place. The fact that Fianna Fáil-the party of Eamon de Valera and other Independence heroes-returned to power delighted Irish republicans. There were worries in Belfast and London that Lynch's party was a bit soft on the Irish Republican Army, and that a Fianna Fáil government would repolarize the situation in Ulster by stirring up suspicions among...