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...Irish tax collector and was preparing to emigrate to the U.S. Then the Haughey bill was passed. Delaney stayed, and Ireland retained one of its more colorful national assets. In his roisterous youth, Delaney was famed for pub crawls with Brendan Behan and for having been expelled from Dublin's National College of Art ("Inspiration didn't automatically come to me between 9 and 5"). Today in his Dublin studio and on his stony ocean-front farm in County Galway, Delaney fashions sculptures from scrap bronze that he has melted down. "In the long run," he says...
Nothing, however, beats the appeal of the old Irish pub. As they say in Dublin--if you aren't Irish, you should be. And if you care about where you drink, you probably...
...crazy." Flung into the celebrity circuit, he was "eaten alive, asked questions which I felt invasive and impossible to answer." He produced another book, The Looking Glass War, but it brought little satisfaction; reviewers said the adventure could not compare with its smashing predecessor. Le Carré traveled to Dublin to assist in the script of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold. "I did it," he insists, "because Richard Burton was sulking and couldn't say his lines. That was my first and last taste of show...
...meeting, an Irish delegate, although warned not to contribute to a special fund, was impelled by Hibernian hubris to kick in a few million pounds when he heard the Arabs pledging huge sums. On his return to Dublin, the head of the Central Bank said to him gloomily, "My God, man, do you realize what you've done? Now the government will have to put another penny tax on a pint of stout...
...estimate more than $450 million has been invested in Ireland by U.S. companies ranging from General Electric, which makes components for color-television sets, to Bally Manufacturing Corp., the Chicago slot-machine company, which exports one-armed bandits from Dublin to Sydney. "We couldn't do business in Australia without that Dublin plant," says Bill O'Donnell, Bally's president, "because Ireland qualifies for special treatment on tariffs there." Although Keating is concentrating his efforts on the U.S., he recently lured Beecham Group Ltd., the big British pharmaceutical firm, to invest in a 50-acre site near...