Word: irelander
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...Ireland's Catholics had long identified with and supported America's abolitionist movements with a fervor they encouraged amongst their American kin. Religious persecution under the notorious British Penal Laws had driven Irish Catholics to New England by the thousands. As virtual slave laborers, the Irish ended up in black communities. They worked the same jobs, lived in the same neighborhoods, and engendered from the close, often intimate proximity, the first recorded incidence of 'mulattoes' as a census grouping in states like Pennsylvania...
Each Tuesday and Thursday morning, roughly 60 students calmly file into the filtered light of Sever 102 and prepare for a relaxed tour through the ancient and medieval literature of Ireland...
...consequence of her injury, Penningroth was confined to a cast for 22 weeks and to crutches for nearly as long. She couldn't compete in Heps with her teammates; nor could she join them in a much-anticipated summer trip to England and Ireland...
Last month, during an emotional executive meeting held by NOW's national board at which Bruce was not present, the members voted almost unanimously to censure Bruce for what president Patricia Ireland called "racially insensitive comments." This week, in a move NOW veterans say is unprecedented in the organization's 30-year history, a hearing will be held by a grievance committee of California NOW in Fresno to strip Bruce of her NOW membership. "We've worked very hard to overcome the stereotype that we are a white, middle-class organization," says NOW executive vice president Kim Gandy, speaking...
...seems to be losing ground as well. Since Ireland became president in 1992, the number of NOW chapters has dropped from 800 to 600, as inactive groups were shut down. In California alone, membership has fallen from 39,758 in 1990 to 31,168 in mid-1995, which leads Bruce, for one, to question the 270,000 membership figure touted by the national office. "The organization has turned inward, and there is no new vision," says Marie Jose Ragab, president of Dulles NOW in Virginia...