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...year-old British soldier was killed by an I.R.A. gunman in the town of Crossmaglen on the border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. The killing was the first by the I.R.A. since Ireland and Britain signed the Downing Street Declaration, which outlines a step-by-step peace plan for Northern Ireland. One element of the plan is that the I.R.A. must forswear violence for three months in order to be included in negotiations...
...inspire, with the revelation that good people can triumph. They amount to a tiny ray of Hollywood sunshine in the storm of 20th century chaos. While seeming to look clearly at the world, they ignore the bitter, deprived existences of most people who live in it: in Ukraine or Ireland or Vietnam, or in the death camp of an AIDS ward...
Cinema: You thought Schindler's List was depressing? Here come three holiday movies on Vietnam, Ireland and AIDS...
...case." Typically, the author does not develop her thoughts about Hill's impact. Instead we get a list of 26 specific "changes" wrought by the hearings, followed by 30 more general citations of their cultural impact, and finally an unfocused roundup of global repercussions that includes the election of Ireland's President, Mary Robinson. Enough already. In fact, far too much...
Luxury was scarce in William John Neeson's early life. He grew up in the mill town of Ballymena, in Northern Ireland. A strapping lad, he was a youthful boxing champion. "I thought I wanted to be professional. But I realized I didn't have the killer instinct." Soon he was driving a forklift at the Guinness brewery in Belfast by day, and at night filling the Lyric Theatre stage with roles like that of Lennie in Of Mice and Men. In 1986 he moved to Los Angeles, where he was felled by diverticulitis, an intestinal disorder. That experience scarred...