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...Blair was spooked and ordered Lord Derry Irvine, Labour leader in the Lords, to broker a compromise with Salisbury. “Derry offered us 15 hereditary peers....
...His semi-abstract drawings are now considered works of art in their own right and have been exhibited in London’s V&A Museum....
...We have reached the final scene of Shakespeare’s Henry V....
...Any “London v New York” debate is necessarily subjective....
...Derry-Londonderry’s year has helped bring together a community with a history of religious sectarianism, though the economic impact seems less clear....
...When the Queen went to Dublin almost three years ago, it was the first trip of a British monarch to Irish soil since her grandfather, George V, the last royal state visitor in 1911....
...Its successor, the British army’s killings of 14 unarmed protesters in the Derry Bogside in 1972 as the Northern Ireland “Troubles” got into full swing, was laid to rest last year by the Saville judicial...
...“What if it were the Republic of Ireland v Slovenia?” “Ireland”. “Northern Ireland v Slovenia?” “Slovenia”. A Protestant later gave me the reverse set of replies....
...“The V&A was keen to purchase, but it did not have enough staff to look after the pieces or enough space to house them, because it had just bought the Vivienne Westwood collection.”...
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