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...went on to join the fabled freedom riders in the early 1960s, registering blacks to vote and recording her feelings of terror and triumph in the 1965 book Freedom Summer. Her other works include Living with War, based on a year in the urban battleground of Belfast in Northern Ireland, and an autobiography to be published later this year...
...unexploded shells did shatter a fragile optimism in Britain and Ireland that serious negotiations to settle the 25-year conflict in Northern Ireland were about to begin. Major players in the Roman Catholic-vs.- Protestant struggle had been talking peace since last December, when British Prime Minister John Major and his Irish counterpart Albert Reynolds issued their Downing Street Declaration affirming that both countries would abide by any settlement democratically agreed upon by the people of Ireland, north and south...
...happened so often in the past, Adams' measured words somehow turned violence into a plea for peace. His emergence as one of the key men to reckon with in Northern Ireland has brought him a long way from the rough streets of Belfast, where he began his activist career. Only two days before the attacks, he was rambling through the streets of west Belfast in a cold drizzle. He paused in front of a rubble heap, which for him was a monument to a heroic political struggle, not just the remnants of a high-rise public housing project. "These...
Malin's broadcasting career began when he was a 16-year-old high school senior inhis hometown of Dublin, Ireland. In 1958, he cameto Harvard and played varsity soccer...
Boston's population did not become significantly Irish, however, until the mid-19th century, when immigrants flocked to the city to avoid Ireland's potato famines. Since then, the Irish-American community has become a permanent fixture of Bostonian society. For 104 out of the past 110 years, the mayor of Boston has been of Irish origin...