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Three singers who have among the most glorious voices in pop music are carrying on the Irish vocal tradition. Dolores O'Riordan, lead singer of the rock band the Cranberries, the ever feisty Sinead O'Connor and newcomer Katell Keineg (born in Celtic Brittany, she lives in Dublin) have distinct personalities, to be sure, but they all have a flair for emotional and vocal dramatics -- a typical Celtic intensity -- and they all partake of that peculiarly Irish mix of melancholy, anger and romance. Moreover, they all share a feminist perspective, singing songs about women taking control of their lives...
They didn't sit for long, though. On the ensuing kickoff, Dartmouth cornerback Brian White, son of Boston Celtic legend Jo Jo White, ran the ball back 98 yards to tie a Harvard 35 Dartmouth...
Writing in 1901, the distinguished black critic and poet William Stanley Braithwaite argued, "We are at the commencement of a 'negroid' renaissance," one that "will have as much importance in literary history as the much- spoken-of and much-praised Celtic and Canadian renaissance." Others came to share his optimism. Just three years later, a critic declared the birth of the "New Negro Literary Movement." At the time, after all, the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, the novelists Pauline Hopkins and Charles Chesnutt, and the essayists W.E.B. DuBois and Anna Julia Cooper were at the height of their creative powers...
Literature and Arts A-68. Poets and Poetry in the Celtic Literary Tradition...
...Celtic 130. Introduction to Scottish Gaelic...