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...example, did you know that we have a Celtic Languages and Literatures Department? Not a mere "committee" like Women's Studies, but a full-fledged academic department. Well, the faculty includes only three people: the department chair, a lecturer and a visiting professor (from Dublin, of course). Also, most of the courses are not offered this year...
Three singers who have among the most glorious voices in pop music are carrying on the Irish vocal tradition. Dolores O'Riordan, lead singer of the rock band the Cranberries, the ever feisty Sinead O'Connor and newcomer Katell Keineg (born in Celtic Brittany, she lives in Dublin) have distinct personalities, to be sure, but they all have a flair for emotional and vocal dramatics -- a typical Celtic intensity -- and they all partake of that peculiarly Irish mix of melancholy, anger and romance. Moreover, they all share a feminist perspective, singing songs about women taking control of their lives...
...poet, who holds numerous honorary degrees from prestigious universities across the country, is spending this semester at his home in Dublin and is currently traveling in Australia, an English Department spokesperson said yesterday...
...their childhood, the neighborhood where the Sullivans lived--called Kerry Corner--was small, close-knit and, above all, Irish. The neighborhood changed forever after Harvard bought up much of the property there, but the Sullivans remain proud of their Irish roots. Ed, in fact, is an honorary citizen of Dublin, Ireland...
Divorced in 1982 from fellow musician Eric Taylor after a six-year marriage, she lives alone, either at her century-old farmhouse outside Nashville, Tennessee, or in her loft in downtown Dublin, where she is a wildly popular member of the burgeoning Irish country-folk scene. Most of the time she travels, which is where she gets her best musical ideas. "I do most of my writing on the road," she says. "It doesn't matter where I am. It all comes at one time, words and music. I think of my songs as little gifts that I reach...