Tag: Dublin (Ireland)

Malachy McCourt, Actor, Memoirist and Gadabout, Dies at 92

Malachy McCourt, who fled a melancholic childhood in Ireland for America, where he applied his blarney and brogue to become something of a professional Irishman as a thespian, a barkeep and a best-selling memoirist, died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 92. His death, in a hospital, was confirmed by his wife, Diana McCourt. In […]

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Bohemians: The Irish Team Selling Soccer With a Side of Activism

In the back room of the threadbare offices of the Irish soccer team Bohemians, the printer clunks and chugs and whirs incessantly, spitting out a cascade of shipping labels. Some of the addresses bear the names of nearby Dublin streets. Others are from farther afield: across Ireland, across the Irish Sea, across the Atlantic. Each […]

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‘The Social Contract Has Been Completely Ruptured’: Ireland’s Housing Crisis

Before sunrise each day, Aoife Diver, a teacher in Dublin, gets into her car and drives for up to 90 minutes from her uncle’s house to the opposite side of the Irish capital. After school, it is back in the car for the reverse commute. On a recent evening, Ms. Diver, 25, sat in stop-and-go […]

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‘The Social Contract Has Completely Ruptured’: Ireland’s Housing Crisis

Before sunrise each day, Aoife Diver, a teacher in Dublin, gets into her car and drives for up to 90 minutes from her uncle’s house to the opposite side of the Irish capital. After school, it is back in the car for the reverse commute. On a recent evening, Ms. Diver, 25, sat in stop-and-go […]

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Ireland’s Riot Was Not a Surprise to Those Who Watch the Far Right

On a bright, cold afternoon on O’Connell Street in central Dublin, Memet Uludag, a businessman and activist, was rolling up an antiracism banner. It had been four days since the worst riot Ireland had seen in decades, and Mr. Uludag and hundreds of others had gathered to denounce the anti-immigrant sentiment that had fueled the […]

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Donors Give Over €300,000 for Immigrant Who Intervened in Dublin Stabbing

In the wake of a knife attack in Dublin this past week that sparked Ireland’s worst anti-immigrant violence in recent memory, people in the country and beyond are celebrating a Brazilian immigrant who intervened to end the assault. An online fund-raiser set up to “Buy Caio Benicio a pint,” a standard token of appreciation in […]

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Dublin Violence Brings Shame on Ireland, Prime Minister Varadkar Says

A violent clash between rioters and police in central Dublin on Thursday injured several police officers, one seriously, and prompted the arrests of 34 people, according to the Garda Síochána, the Irish police force. Rioters set fire to police vehicles, destroyed public buses and looted or damaged more than a dozen shops, the Garda said. […]

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Rioters Clash With Police in Dublin After Children Hurt in Knife Attack

Three young children and a woman in her 30s were injured near a school in Dublin on Thursday, the police said, in what the country’s justice minister described as “an appalling attack.” A suspect in the case was in custody, according to a spokeswoman for the Garda Síochána, the Irish police force. The police said […]

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A United Ireland May Be More Than a Dream

Before she died in 2013, Dolours Price, a Provisional Irish Republican Army guerrilla, started granting interviews. She described planting I.R.A. bombs and driving people to their executions, smuggling explosives and going on hunger strike in a British prison. But it was Ms. Price’s memories of girlhood in 1950s Northern Ireland that kept running through my […]

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