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DIED. CATHAL GOULDING, 75, I.R.A. leader; in Dublin, Ireland. Goulding helped revive the I.R.A. in 1945, and while serving as its chief of staff, he attempted to move the group away from military confrontation. In 1972 he called a cease-fire, creating a split between his Official I.R.A. branch and the Provisional I.R.A., which sought continued armed strife...
DIED. HURD HATFIELD, 80, actor; in Monkstown, Ireland. Best remembered as the lead in 1945's The Picture of Dorian Gray, the Manhattan-born Hatfield was famed for his arrogant manner. He appeared in such movies as Jean Renoir's Diary of a Chambermaid...
Meanwhile, the euro is the currency used for all non-cash transactions (such as credit card purchases and bank transfers) and for official bookkeeping in the 11 euro nations--Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain...
...when the Vatican released a 14-page report declaring a genuine (if limited) repentance for the church's role in the Holocaust. Or when Cuba altered its attitude (somewhat) toward Christianity, and Castro invited the Pope for a visit. Or when Northern Ireland made a formal decision not to keep killing itself (for a while). The sound of one mind changing can make one hell of a yarn...
Writer-director John Boorman says he thinks of Martin Cahill, protagonist of The General, as a throwback to those Celtic chieftains who haunt Ireland's misty past--cunning brutes whom legend often turns into romantic rogues...