Word: aran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...superficial and burdensomely clever piece. "Ireland's history, or rather the lack of it"-with seven prehistoric cyclopean Duns in its Aran Islands and tumuli in the Boyne and the Blackwater valleys that can be compared with only the pyramids of the Pharaohs! Your man is daft. May God have mercy on his soul...
...planes, when a refueling stop was a must on a transatlantic flight. The jet age brought a temporary drop in Shannon's business, but last year 714,000 passengers passed through, nearly double the number in the peak pre-jet years. The thought of picking up an authentic Aran Islands sweater for $19.50, a genuine Irish tweed sports jacket for $32, or a hand-crocheted christening shawl for $12 was enough to make many jet-borne travelers reroute their itinerary and stop briefly at Shannon. Sales have been growing by 20% annually, to last year...
...prodigious primitive. He was the first man of film to demonstrate that the merest reality can inspire the highest art. In arctic desolation he evolved the documentary method and at the corners of the earth produced the early masterworks of the tradition: Nanook of the North, Moana, Man of Aran, Louisiana Story. With the perspective of half a century, the works retain their stature, and the figure of Flaherty is magnified in time. In The Innocent Eye, Biographer Arthur Calder-Marshall depicts Flaherty as an extravagant example of an extravagant type: the artist-adventurer. A great shaggy polar bear...
...British film industry paid for his next film, Man of Aran, an almost too beautiful picture of life on a great spumy boulder set in a western sea. Somewhat unjustly, the critics found it pretentious, and the public couldn't have cared less. So Flaherty waited twelve years to make his next important picture. In 1946 Standard Oil picked up the tab for Louisiana Story, a mellow and charming parable of the encounter between nature and technology, the crocodile and the oil derrick. In 1951, at the age of 67, Flaherty died of a cerebral thrombosis...
Tinkers' carts still creak along country roads; city air is as pure as Connemara spring water. Off the Aran Islands, fishermen still go out in currachs, their ancient coracles, and never learn to swim because they know death takes longer if they do. Ireland has in abundance the qualities that often seem to be dis appearing elsewhere: kindliness, an unruly individualism, lack of snobbery, ease, style and, above all, sly humor. Though the Irish have lived much of their lives with bloodshed and privation, their tales of the bad times are recounted with as little rancor as if they...