Word: wicklow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cambodian tragedy has also stirred a number of individual relief efforts. Two Irish partners, Wicklow County Farmer Tim Philips, 41, and Dublin Sportswriter John O'Shea, 35, recruited a five-man flight crew and this month took a four-engine cargo plane loaded with 26 tons of food and medical supplies worth $200,000 from Dublin to Bangkok, and then into Phnom-Penh. The Irish dairy and sugar industries, a supermarket chain and a tobacco company donated the supplies, and the Irish government provided $80,000 for flight costs. That mercy mission, as Philips told his brother...
...Forsyth left England in 1974 to escape having to pay an 83% tax on royalties. After a year in Spain, he and his Ulster-born wife Carrie settled in Ireland, where they bought and refurbished Kilgarron, an 18th century manor house surrounded by 25 acres of woodland in County Wicklow. When things are dull, the Forsyths go to Dublin or London, but they are usually happy to stay at home, playing tennis, clearing the land or feeding their turkeys and chickens. "Country life," he says, "is very consuming...