IRA Truce Called Path to Peace
HOW DOES TCU COMPARE? PERSPECTIVE - PAGE 10 TCU DAILY SKIFF THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1,1994 TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY, FORT WORTH, TEXAS 92NDYEAR,NO. TCU Press IRA truce art book wins award called path BY NATALIE GARDNER TCU DAILY SKIFF to peace Decorating Texas: Decorative Painting in the Lone Star State, TCU professor attributes 1850-1950, by Buie Harwood, has been awarded a certificate of com- mendation from the American Asso- cease-fire to "exhaustion" ciation for State and Local History. The book, published by the TCU BY DENA RAINS Press in 1993, is a study of decora- TCU DAILY SKIFF tive painting using stenciling, in-fill painting, and freehand murals and The temporary cease-fire called by the Irish Repub- landscapes in residential, religious lican Army Wednesday is an "extraordinarily positive" and commercial structures scattered step toward a permanent peace agreement in Northern across the state of Texas. Ireland that may take years to settle, said TCU political The author will be presented the science professor Donald Jackson. certificate at the association's 54th The IRA declared the cease-fire Wednesday, and annual meeting. Sept. 29 to Oct. 1, in Northern Ireland now waits to see if the long-sought Omaha. Neb. truce will hold and bring talks to end a quarter-century "We are. of course, very proud to of sectarian bloodshed. do the book," said Judy Alter, direc- A permanent peace treaty will require greater coop- tor of the TCU Press. "It fits in very eration between Ireland and North Ireland, civil rights nice with some other studies in that guarantees lor North Ireland Protestants and a possible area that we've done." merger of the two areas.
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