Word: donegall
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kennedy's sense of discipline springs largely from his background as the son of two Irish-Catholic immigrant families. Then Anne Hearne, Mrs. Kennedy left County Wexford in Ireland 30 years ago. She married James Kennedy, the son of an Irish Republican Army member from Donegal who immigrated around 1930...
David is acutely aware of his capacity for accomplishment, and of how far he has come from Donegal and County Wexford. In the course of a two-hour conversation, David mentioned three times that he had won the Nationals and World Championship.
The title refers to a merry harvest festival in County Donegal. But the action never leaves the cottage and yard of the five Mundy sisters, living poor and unmarried in tumbledown Ballybeg in the hard year of 1936, with no entertainment but a balky old radio and their Celtic gift...
When she catches her lover Darton Venable Donegal IV with another woman at a chic restaurant, Leila first notices he is at a "bad table," then sneers at his girlfriend's cheap perfume ("Charlie!") and inelegant neighborhood ("Hoboken!"). After her ten-year-old daughter confides that Darton, who likes rough...