Word: blarneyer
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...temple of recent turbulence, like police stations surrounded by high walls and barbed wire, and the West Belfast peace line, a barrier that has separated Catholic and Protestant neighborhoods longer than Berlin was divided by its wall. Their guide, Bren-dan McKernan, laced fact with a heavy dose of blarney. He recited the alphabet soup of Irish paramilitary groups just as the bus passed a fast food restaurant. To the i.r.a., i.n.l.a., u.d.a. and u.v.f., he added kfc. "Their leader was known as the Colonel," he deadpanned. "They were responsible for a lot of stomach injuries." Another guide eases nerves...
...finest holiday on the calendar—especially for those of us lucky enough to be in Boston, the Ireland of the Americas, for tonight’s grand event. It’s also a great day to put a touch of the Blarney on your tongue with liberal amounts of St. Paddy’s greatest gift to the Irish: whiskey. But even if you can’t tell your Paddy from your Poteen, FM will help you find the craic tonight. Just follow the pub-filled road (Mass. Ave)! And remember: Paddy...
...mysterious behavior - mysterious for a distinguished and successful writer, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, to brag and tell casually self-glorifying lies to his students, like a drunk maundering on his tenth beer at the Blarney Stone. When I heard about Ellis' concoctions, I wanted, out of loyalty, to find a way to dismiss them or excuse them...
...actress Marie Jones based the play on her own encounters with Hollywood (she played Daniel Day-Lewis' mother in In the Name of the Father) and those of her husband--also the play's director--Ian McElhinney, who has had bit roles in such films as Michael Collins. The blarney-filled Hollywood romance being filmed in the play bears some resemblance to Far and Away (which starred those Irish favorites Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman), but Jones insists she isn't skewering any single movie or star but simply trying to show what happens "when the wagon rolls in, with...
...Broadway proscenium.And when they do come alive, it's a joy to watch. McPherson's gift of gab is prodigious. It's not so much eloquence (though he knows how to turn a phrase) as quantity that's so impressive. He's got enough blarney in him to spread across three characters for two hours and still seem like he's got a good lot left over. And the Sugan's actors know just what to do with McPherson's stream of words. Aidan Parkinson as Ray is deliciously self-absorbed--he's also more than happy to share...