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Please inform the author that he may use as many colorful Celtic stereotypes as he can find. He may therefore depict Celts as hard-drinking, red-haired, freckle-faced, hot-tempered, trouble-making, bar-fighting, blue-face-painted, war-crying, shillelagh-wielding, whiskey-swilling, barbaric, primitive, illiterate, sheep-loving, green-hatted, bagpipe-playing, potato-eating, Guinness-guzzling leprechauns. Permit me also to suggest the use of such classic Celtic phrases as "top o' the mornin' to ye!", and "they're always stealin' me lucky charms...
...preface, Heaney acknowledges the irony of a Celtic poet's attempting to revivify an Anglo-Saxon poem. When younger, he notes, "I tended to conceive of English and Irish as adversarial tongues, as either/or conditions rather than both/ands." But this notion faded the deeper he got into his translation. Digging, delving into the loam of language, has been a central metaphor throughout his poetic career. (His most recent selection is titled Opened Ground.) What Heaney has brought to the surface with his Beowulf is an old and newly burnished treasure...
...couple will be making music at the Swannanoa Gathering held at WARREN WILSON COLLEGE in Asheville, N.C. From July 9 through Aug. 5, the campus plays host to six one-week workshops led by fiddlers, pipers, guitarists, step dancers and folklorists from around the world. Three of the workshops--Celtic Week, Sing Swing and String Week and Old-Time Music Week--welcome adults and children...
...Cambridge. I know what Irish people are doing around here." Stop by The Field any day of the week and forget about cover charges. As long as you order something to drink, you're solid. Munch on one of the startlingly good appetizers as you imbibe to the live Celtic music. The 75%-25% mix of Cambridge residents to college students also sets the place apart from Harvard Square watering holes...
...Being Celtic is a state of mind," he added. "I emphasize inclusivity and diversity...