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HOGAN'S GOAT. Ethnic memory is tapped as William Alfred evokes Irish character, customs and political clout in Brooklyn at the turn of the century. Beneath the blarney and blather lies the turbulent story of the making and unmaking of an American politician...
...garden catalogues were synonyms for sucker bait. Thanks to such groups as All-America Selections, which tests the new varieties, the big companies now make a painstaking effort to describe their wares honestly, and to illustrate them in true-to-life colors, along with a modicum of imagination-whetting blarney...
...LUCK OF GINGER COFFEY. Robert Shaw is superb as a big, genial Irishman who swamps his life and his wife (Mary Ure) in a torrent of blarney...
...linens welcome passengers aboard "shamrock flights." They feed them in first class on Royal Tara china with such delicacies as grilled Liffey salmon steaks, Irish coffee and Guinness stout. All the while, Irish jigs frolic over the intercom and the captain communicates in a bog-thickened brogue. Such blarney-and the practical advantage that the Irish government permits only state-owned Aer Lingus to land at Dublin as well as Shannon-last year accounted for earnings of $1,300,000 and a fourth year in the black on the transatlantic route...
What Sean Lemass wanted most was to lure foreign investors over O'Connell Bridge. The new Prime Minister sent blarney-blessed salesmen around the world persuading foreign industries to set up plants in Ireland. They offered one of the few labor surpluses in all Europe, liberal grants for equipment and construction, and additional cash to companies that would build plants and train workers in Ireland's pinched northwest and south...