Word: corks
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...other behemoth news, MARLON BRANDO has announced that he "is seriously contemplating Irish citizenship." The star, currently filming in a village in County Cork with Johnny Depp and Debra Winger, said he had "never felt as at home in a place as I do here." Although the O is at the wrong end of his name, Brando claims Irish blood via his grandmother...
...father came to Cambridge from Cork, Irelandin 1918," Walsh recounted under questioning fromKontos...
...father came to Cambridge from Cork, Irelandin 1918," Walsh recounted under questioning fromKontos...
More than 100 glossy photos of past triumphs line swinging cork board panels which allow prospective party-goers to peruse possible decoration ideas or even to come up with ideas of their...
Relatively few emigrants found the paradise promised by the ads and the letters home. The early arrivals were, by and large, poor, ill-schooled and young (two-thirds were between 15 and 39 years old). In Europe's principal ports of exodus -- Liverpool and Cork, Bremen and Rotterdam -- they were beset by thieves and hucksters, cheated by ship's captains (there was no set fee for tickets to America) and, until the age of steam, often even ignorant of where they would eventually land. If they survived the journey -- and as many as one-third died aboard ship or within...