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What happens when you put together an orphan living in a medieval abbey, a Celtic manuscript with magical powers, a spunky fairy residing in the forest, Vikings who are about to attack, and a serpent god who ends up devouring itself after being conquered by the chalk of destiny...
...play a video game. Instead, “How to Train Your Dragon” takes a classic and clichéd Hollywood storyline and makes it memorable. This is most evident in the wondrous scenes in which Toothless, Hiccup, and Astrid soar through the sunset to the beautiful Celtic-inspired score of John Powell. Viewers may recall a very similar CGI experience in “Avatar,” in which flying beasts streak the sky in symbiotic unity with their mounted protagonists. The difference in “How to Train Your Dragon” is that...
...idea for the museum simply came to him in a muggy, hungover moment of inspiration one morning in 2003. "I can't say it was a fairy visitation," he says with a chortle. "I was just drawn to them, or maybe they were drawn to me." With the Celtic Tiger economy booming at the time, he didn't have much difficulty finding investors to pony up the money to fund the venture. "Every pitch meeting would begin with 10 minutes of laughter," O'Rahilly recalls. "But once they began to reflect, they realized it could be viable." (See pictures...
...pretty much at the bone level,” said Catherine McKenna, chair of the Celtic languages and literatures department, which comprises two faculty members. “But I feel from my conversations with the Dean that it is pretty well understood that there is no fat in this very tiny department...
...instance, Lenihan unleashed deeply unpopular cuts in public-sector pay that look set to trigger strike action. But when it comes to a spending squeeze of their own, says Tilford, "the Greeks are a long way from recognizing that they really have no choice." (Read "Ireland's Economy: Celtic Crunch Time...