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Died. Michael Carr (born Cohen), 64, a Dublin-reared Jew who wrote the music of some of the most popular Irish songs, including Did Your Mother Come from Ireland? and Everybody's Got a Touch of Irish; in London. Carr ran away to sea as a teenager, worked as a Hollywood bit player before moving to England, where he composed South of the Border and Hang Out the Washing on the Siegfried Line...
Died. Georgina Yeats, 75, widow of the Irish poet William Butler Yeats; of a heart attack; in Dublin. "How should I forget the wisdom that you brought/ The comfort that you made?" wrote Yeats in 1919, two years after his marriage to the witty, cultured English woman who was his confidante, and to some extent, muse. In 1963, nearly 30 years after his death, she gave Ireland's National Library a collection of his manuscripts that officials termed "one of the most munificent gifts since the founding of the state...
...Dublin's Dr. Raymond G. Cross noted that the incidence of anencephaly and of a comparable abnormality, spina bifida (failure of the spinal column to close), varied with religion. Records of 700 cases of these abnormalities showed that the rate was 2.8 per 1,000 births among Catholics, 2 per 1,000 among Protestants, and only .7 per 1,000 among Jews...
Their campuses are less than a mile apart, but Dublin's two major universities have long been separated by a bitter heritage of hate and suspicion. Trinity College (enrollment: 3,500) is Protestant, England-oriented, aristocratic. University College (7,325) is Roman Catholic, nationalist, middle class. Relations between the two are so frosty that, when the Irish government recently offered them joint use of a veterinary school, the colleges balked at sharing the same faculty and instead created overlapping, independent staffs. Now, however, Ireland's Ministry of Education has taken a major step toward ending the rivalry. Under...
...free, unfettered thought in Ireland. Its graduates include Jonathan Swift, Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, and Samuel Beckett. Faculty traditionalists fear that the school will lose its élan and its independence in the merger. There is also some Protestant concern about a "Papist takeover." It has been noted that Dublin's Archbishop John C. McQuaid still sends out an annual pastoral letter warning Catholics that attendance at Trinity is a mortal sin. Dispensations, however, are freely given, and since many students simply ignore the ban, a full one-third of the enrollment is Catholic...