Hints and tips:
...The Irish economy was booming and suddenly it seemed there was a whole generation who had never heard an Irish joke or been aware of an IRA terror campaign....
.../ From Ira Sohn, Montclair State University, NJ, US...
...Who can forget, for example, Michael Fassbender’s Bobby Sands, the imprisoned IRA member who is the protagonist of Hunger, starving himself into ice-pale absence like a medieval saint?...
...Beauty and the beast Sarah O’Connor has been to Bolsover in Derbyshire to see whether the Conservatives can unseat Dennis Skinner, known in Westminster as the Beast of Bolsover....
...“The department’s waiver again raises the question of why the world’s most dangerous too-big-to-fail banks are above the law and get special treatment,” said Dennis Kelleher, president of Better Markets,...
...In reality there would be an IRA snoop behind every grassblade....
...Selections by Clive Cookson … SPORT Stillness and Speed: My Story, by Dennis Bergkamp, Simon & Schuster, RRP£20 This has been an excellent year for football autobiographies....
...Derided as a Fenian by some Ulster Protestants when he moved his family to the Republic of Ireland in the 1970s, Heaney later found himself on a train seated opposite Danny Morrison, the IRA/Sinn Féin leader...
...The filmmaker Ira Sachs (Forty Shades of Blue) adapts a novel by John Bingham....
...MR ZELL: The employees’ contribution represents that which the company previously matched their IRA contributions....
...There’s also swings to the Lib Dems in the safe Labour seats of Rotherham, and Vauxhall in south London, with Dennis McShane and Kate Hoey respectively holding their seats....
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