他自身的那些贡献,作为这一系列的开端看起来总像是个失败。他提出的对流产法的小幅度修改,民意惨淡;他提出的关于离婚的法案遭到民众的强烈抵抗;但他成功地带起了民法方面的课题。在北爱尔兰,1973年的Sunningdale,权利分享协议在签署不久后就瓦解了,而他的新爱尔兰论坛又遭到玛格丽特?撒切尔的强烈鄙视。该论坛实现了他渴望的一幕双方的正式代表就教堂等问题沟通交流。即使是1985年的Anglo-Irish协议也被共和党看做背叛,被恐怖分子视为一种鼓励。英国在该条约中首次公认了共和国在北方的利益,不过事实上只是比13年前的Good Friday协议前进了一小步。
A mislaid overcoat
一件记不起放在哪的大衣
He had the ideal background for conciliation, with a Catholic father from the South and aProtestant mother from the North . Sectarianism was soforeign to him that when he met rank prejudice, he often burst out laughing. Politics was inhis blood, his father having been in independent Ireland s first government in 1922; thoughhe himself wandered into it from academia, reluctant to give partisan speeches in the openair or at dance halls, and quite inept at the plotting and manipulation so dazzlinglydisplayed by his Fianna Fail nemesis, Charles Haughey. Though he was foreign minister from1973-77 and taoiseach twice, in 1981-82 and 1982-87, he remained somehow an innocent,mislaying as he travelled overcoat, pyjamas, watch; and not realising, so carried away washe with his theories for redistributing wealth in Ireland, that to put value-added tax onchildren s shoes might spell suicide at the polls.
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