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...play opens in 1833, at a schoolhouse in the rural Irish township of Ballybeg. British soldiers settle in to map and rename Ireland, forcibly replacing Gaelic place names with English and suppressing the Irish language...
...prime ministers of Britain and Ireland today unveiled a plan for ending the violent Protestant-Catholic conflict in Northern Ireland. They proposed reviving an elected parliament for the British-controlled province and creating a lower house with members from both northern and southern Ireland. The next step: peace negotiations between Protestant and Catholic factions, who are presently honoring a six-month truce. But an angry reaction today from Protestant politicians, who do not want concessions to the anti-British Catholic minority in Northern Ireland, made it clear that negotiations will not be easy. TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand says...
...prime ministers of Britain and Ireland today unveiled a plan for ending the violent Protestant-Catholic conflict in Northern Ireland. They proposed reviving an elected parliament for the British-controlled province and creating a lower house with members from both northern and southern Ireland. The next step: peace negotiations between Protestant and Catholic factions, who are presently honoring a six-month truce. But an angry reaction today from Protestant politicians, who do not want concessions to the anti-British Catholic minority in Northern Ireland, made it clear that negotiations will not be easy. TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand says...
...listen, Mr. Secretary, we're not talking about some garden-variety dysfunctional family here. These are selfish, spoiled sorts--billionaire owners who treat their teams as toys and millionaire players who charge kids for autographs. To comprehend the distrust between the two sides in this dispute, look to Northern Ireland for guidance...
DUBLIN: Robbery Ruckus Fallout from Ireland's largest cash heist ever has officials and security personnel fending off allegations of bumbling. On Jan. 24, two jeeps burst through the fence of the Brink's-Allied depot in northern Dublin. The five masked occupants, encountering no resistance, bagged $4.2 million and sped away. Following Justice Ministry assurances that all precautions had been taken to prevent such a raid, embarrassing revelations emerged. Not only did police fail to beef up surveillance after a warning that a security-company robbery was being planned, but when the theft took place, most of the Brink...