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Article: IRELAND'S MARCH OF THE DEAD
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 22, 1988
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The pendulum of death swings as inexorably as time across
the tear-stained face of Northern Ireland.
A dozen persons come to commemorate the dead of two world
wars in the small market town of Enniskillen. They die suddenly
from a bomb detonated by the Irish Republican Army.
Three IRA agents walking on a sun-drenched street in Gibraltar
are shot to death by British army men in plain clothes. At the
funeral of the Gibraltar dead, a gunman tosses grenades into the
graveside crowd, killing three and wounding 68.
A few days later, as the cortege of one of these funeral
victims winds its solemn way to the cemetery, two British soldiers
in plain clothes drive toward the mourners. They ...