The Irish famine, An Gorta Mor, was unparalleled. No famine ever claimed such a high percentage of a country's population. Only two famines in this century have claimed more lives. Below, MEADBH GALLAGHER looks behind the horror to the processes
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By Bernard Wunsch BRISBANE — About 300 high school students walked out of their classes on October 18 and rallied at the Roma Street Forum in protest against Australian uranium sales to France and French nuclear testing in the Pacific. The walkout
I enjoyed this book, but I won't tell you to rush out and buy it. If you tried to do so, you wouldn't succeed. In the '70s and '80s, dissident writers in the Soviet Union invented samizdat — "self publishing" — the distribution of manuscripts by
A preliminary agreement between Croatian and Serb negotiators and UN and US mediators in Erdut in eastern Slavonia on October 3, provides for a two year transition before the region returns to Croatian control. The land is rich agricultural land and
Student underground papers: 1968-6 Secondary students in dissent Student underground papers: 1968-6 By Natasha Simons "This news sheet ... is an attempt to make students realise that there is another attitude to the [Vietnam] war besides that of the
By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — When voters in the city of Volgograd went to the polls on October 1 to elect a new local legislature, supporters of the Russian government were not expecting much comfort. Nevertheless, the results shocked them. Of 24
By Stuart Martin CANBERRA — Since mid-September, Australian National University members of the National Tertiary Education Industry Union (NTEU) and the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU), have been conducting industrial action to win a
A Walk in the CloudsStarring Keanu Reeves, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Anthony Quinn and Giancarlo GianniniDirected by Alfonso ArauReviewed by Barry Healy Magic Realism, the heady mix of gritty emotion and surreal dreaminess, has started to seep out of
GarbageGarbageWhite Records through MushroomReviewed by Jen Crothers One person's garbage is another person's treasure, to paraphrase an old saying. That's how the name of this new band originated. On hearing some early material, one musician's
By Norm Dixon Human rights and peace movement activists are outraged that the ANC-led South African government has refused to support a ban on the production and export of landmines. Activists had high hopes that the ANC, whose members have
The world's largest manufacturer of passenger jets has been grounded. Boeing's 32,000 production workers in three US states downed tools on October 6 after members of the International Association of Machinists voted to reject a contract that
By Ben Alterman CASTLEMAINE — Inmates and staff at Victoria's Loddon and Pentridge prisons were informed on October 6, by the head of the Department of Health and Community Services Dr Graham-Rouch, that a recently released inmate had been
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