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...career as a pop artist, Sting has managed to stay relevant -- and popular -- by continuing to create gently innovative music that borrows from other sources so wisely and so well that the resulting sound is truly his own. His new album, 'Mercury Falling,' draws on country, gospel and even Celtic music to create smooth, genre-blending, articulate pop. "It is another bright entry into what has proved to be his brilliant career as a solo artist," says TIME's Christopher John Farley. "'Mercury Falling' stands out as his most consistently entertaining effort. The lyrics are smart but not self-consciously...
Literature and Arts C-20, "The Hero of Irish Myth and Saga," is where to go for all the juicy details about the lives of Lug, Medb, Cu Chulainn and the rest of the kings, queens, conquerors and gods in the Celtic oral tradition...
...teacher's neat casual suits or carefully parted white hair fool you. Students say Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies Tomas O Cathasaigh teaches the myths with energy and wit worthy of the Celtic heroes themselves...
Jokes aside, O Cathasaigh is passionate about Irish mythology. He says he is motivated to teach this material, much of which is also offered in the departmental course Celtic 136, in order to offer the obscure material for more public consumption...
...Cathasaigh has found an eager audience for the tales, which he says have been passed down orally since around the fifth century A.D., and describe the lives and battles of mythical Celtic gods and heroes...