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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...
...Connor has already gone way past outspoken. Since releasing her first album in 1987, she has ripped up a picture of the Pope on national TV, engaged in a war of words with Frank Sinatra and accused her mother of stomping on her belly to try to burst her uterus. But her controversies do seem to make her music all the more varied and pungent, and no one can dispute that O'Connor has an astonishing voice. Her new album, Universal Mother, starts not a little acrimoniously with the grinding, pulsating Fire on Babylon, in which the singer again attacks...
...three singers strive to connect themselves to old, grand traditions. They use Celtic imagery, and Keineg sings one song, the stately O Iesu Mawr, in Gaelic; O'Connor quotes William Butler Yeats on the liner notes of her CD, and O'Riordan pays him tribute in the song Yeats' Grave. This awareness of a particular past helps distinguish their songs from the typical rootless algae of pop music. In his poem A Coat, Yeats wrote, "I made my song a coat/ Covered with embroideries/ Out of old mythologies/ From heel to throat." As modern women conscious of an Irish heritage...
...their six leading forwards from last season are returning, and they will need to be productive for the Tigers to do well. Ian Sharp is a solid defensive forward, while J.P. O'Connor will carry much of the scoring burden...
...course, Cohen also gives us the obligatory sideshow. Flannery O'Connor has said that she doubted "whether the texture of Southern life" is more inclined to the grotesque. After reading about some of the people Cohen, a Dallas native, meets, I began to doubt O'Connor's wisdom. We get a sample of graffiti "art" from a bad poet named Dirk. We get a someone named Dale's take on the AIDS epidemic, "Basically, its a combination of a virus from a goat and a cow that creates the HIV virus." We get Suzanne, a Vaiden, Mississippi native, speaking...