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They are, in fact, the adorable inheritors of a threatened Irish subculture, that of the Travellers, or Celtic Gypsies. It is their grandfather, who continues to follow the old, threatened ways, who brings the animal he calls ! Tir na nOg (Land of Eternal Youth in Gaelic) to them in the unhappy Dublin housing project where they live with their father (Gabriel Byrne), who abandoned his free-roving heritage after his wife's death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Friend Tir na nOg | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

...That is to say, you could safely bundle the brood off to Into the West and no harm would come to them. But a grownup could sneak off to it all alone and have an extremely rewarding evening. For stallion and friends are Irish, meaning that an aura of Celtic mysticism surrounds the horse and a rebellious, wandering spirit moves in eight-year-old Ossie (Ciaran Fitzgerald) and 12-year-old Tito (Ruaidhri Conroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Friend Tir na nOg | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

...traditional instruments and singing about Irish political themes. Irish pop music experts point out that in the past few years the genre has diversified. There's House of Pain, an Irish-American rap group that features b-boy bravado and beer-soaked rhymes ("Coming with the style of a Celtic rebel/ Those that ain't on my level call me the blue-eyed devil"), and the Belfast grunge band Therapy?, whose debut album Nurse wallows in pounding metal rhythms and anarchistic attitude ("I don't need you/ I don't want you/ I don't want to feel anymore"). Earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock Me, I'm Irish | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

...grew up in Boston. But unlike Trey, I wanted to play for the Celtics. I watched all three of the Celtics' '80s championships. I still have every Sports Illustrated with Larry Bird on the cover. But when I got cut from my high school basketball team, I came to realize that donning Celtic Green was dream that would never be fulfilled...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: A Night at the Boston Garden | 3/16/1993 | See Source »

...best tradition of Celtic Green, Harvard connected on an abysmal 31.6 percent of their shots in the second half. Further compounding the problem, the Johnnies only hit four of nine free throws. In a close game, on the road, the free throw shooting simply can't be that...

Author: By John C. Ausiello, | Title: Road Woes for W. Hoopsters | 2/20/1993 | See Source »

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