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Last summer, I spent most of my time in the long view. I was in Ireland, and I avoided Dublin, the one major city, as much as possible. This left me the majority of my stay with an unobstructed, uninterrupted view of Ireland's lakes within and oceans without, mountains above and cliffs below, fields all around and bogs all about. 'Twas grand...
...Vikings didn't just pillage and run; sometimes they came to stay. Dublin became a Viking town; so did Lincoln and York, along with much of the surrounding territory in northern and eastern England. In Scotland, Vikings maintained their language and political links to their homeland well into the 15th century. Says Batey: "The northern regions of Scotland, especially, were essentially a Scandinavian colony up until then." Vikings also created the duchy of Normandy, in what later became France, as well as a dynasty that ruled Kiev, in Ukraine...
...husband is suddenly dead, her seven children are in peril, she's in debt to a loan shark, and her best friend has breast cancer. But Agnes Browne, played by the director, remains essentially, somewhat improbably, undaunted. She cheerfully runs her fruit and vegetable stall in an outdoor Dublin market, allows herself to be flirted with by the local baker, yearns for tickets to a Tom Jones concert (the year is 1967). Not that we want for another lesson in the need to be chipper in adversity, but there are a reserve and a realism in Huston's work that...
Richardson, a graduate of Trinity College in Dublin, did her doctoral work at Harvard under Buttenwieser University Professor Stanley Hoffmann and has been teaching at the College since...
DIED. PATRICK O'BRIAN, 85, Anglo-Irish author of high-adventure novels of the British navy in the Napoleonic Wars; in Dublin (see Eulogies...