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Dante and Plato on the Subway

By James Murphy

April 13, 2022 by Leave a Comment

This may also be true of many Irish American readers -- I’m bedeviled these days with helping grandchildren write college admission essays. I do my best, but my heart isn’t really into it. I check the grammar and the spelling, but the rest is lost to me. I love them all, but these essays are strange to me. The kids seem to think that since I was a college professor I must have … [Read more...] about Dante and Plato on the Subway

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June 26, 1970

Riots broke out in Londonderry after mid-Ulster MP Bernadette Devlin was arrested. Devlin, who participated in the Bogside riots of 1969, was sentenced to six months in jail. She had previously applied for an appeal, which was rejected by the Northern Ireland Court of Appeals. When police attempted to arrest Devlin at a roadblock in Londonderry, violence quickly escalated with the use of petrol bombs to which soldiers responded with tear gas.

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