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...Vengeance of Fionn," is the story of Grainne, the betrothed of Fionn, and how after she elopes with Diarmuid, Flonn wreaks his savage vengeance upon them. The poem begins with the same engulfing lyrical rhythms that were to characterize much of Clarke's earlier poetry; their sense of grace and music--especially when heard on recordings with Clarke's thick brogue--is perhaps the best this century has yet to offer, combining the rhythms of the symbolist tradition with the sharper forms of the imagists. When Fionn first learns that the two lovers have escaped, for instance. Clarke uses swift...
...Northwest Oregon district that had not gone Democratic in 81 years, AuCoin (pronounced Oh-coin) is a smooth-talking politician who wears conservative dark suits but is a thorough liberal. As majority leader in the Oregon legislature, AuCoin, 32, championed environmental issues, consumer protection and civil rights. His opponent, Diarmuid O'Scannlain, former director of Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality, was similarly strong in supporting protective environmental measures. But AuCoin, a former newspaperman and university publicist, proved more impressive on television and ran a better-organized, labor-supported campaign...
Grania was no giggly coquette, however. According to one version of the legend she, as a young girl, left her gravhaired husband, Finn, an Irish king, and ran off with Diarmuid, one of Finn's young warriors. Finn pursues the couple and, one day, while Diarmuid, one of Finn's young warriors. Finn pursues the couple and, one day, while Diarmuid sleeps Grania turns back to Finn and goes off with...
Looking more a Mad Armenian than a young Gaelic fighter is James Hoare as Diarmuid. Last night Hoare delivered most of his lines like a town crier, which may have been indicative more of first night uneasiness than anything else. In some seenes, especially the later ones with Finn, he was much more relaxed and much more effective...
...Diarmuid Devine, B.A., English master at Saint Michan's and Cuff (socalled for his swift classroom rabbit punch) is his seedy senior colleague, Timothy Stanislaus Heron, M.A., whose raveled gown flaps behind him "like broken black wings." According to Novelist Brian Moore, many moral Waterloos are lost on the playing fields of Saint Michan's. It is not a progressive school; in fact it is the most distressful college that has been seen since Dotheboys Hall. By confession and the cane, the clerical masters rule a cowed proletariat of boys and a middle class of lay masters...