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November 1992

The Times Man in Dublin: James Clarity

By Frank Shouldice

November 1992

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A year ago, veteran correspondent Jim Clarity arrived in Dublin to work for The New York Times. Previous coverage of Ireland had generally been done by its three-man London bureau, a fact that left many Irish Americans dissatisfied and led to charges of Anglophilia especially when it came to the paper's coverage of Northern Ireland. Frank Shouldice reports. Several months … [Read more...] about The Times Man in Dublin: James Clarity

The Rascal King

By Jack Beatty

November 1992

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Saint and sinner, champion of the people and shameless grafter, James Michael Curley, four times mayor of Boston, helped to transform our governance from the politics of deference to the politics of serving human needs. In this excerpt from Jack Beatty's forthcoming The Rascal King, the people of Boston, more than one million of them, turn out to say farewell to one of the most … [Read more...] about The Rascal King

Dracula

October 1, 1992 by Leave a Comment

The setting, Transylvania, the writing style, High Victorian, the story's appeal, universal but the author of one of fiction's most famous and imitated works is Irish. Carstens Smith brings us the story of Bram Stoker, the creator of Dracula. Bram Stoker, whose name is less well known than that of his creation, Dracula, was born in Dublin on November 8, 1847. He was called … [Read more...] about Dracula

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The brief ceasefire in Northern Ireland, which occurred in the early half of 1975, comes to an end on September 22, 1975 after the provisional IRA sets off about 15 bomb blasts through out central Belfast. One bombing involved a hijacked train, which was blown up. The blast injured 12 people, two seriously, but there were no deaths. The ceasefire would officially come to an end in January 1976.

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