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...intertwining of pagan and ) Christian traditions, the virtues and dangers of connecting with one's animal self, loneliness within family and marriage, the paralyzing loss of certainty in the modern world. But in Lughnasa themes emerged organically from storytelling. In Tennessee they are often clumsily declaimed. Moreover, the Dublin-derived ensemble did not create the illusion of long familiarity that the once-in-a-lifetime Lughnasa troupe did. As a bookie who plays sugar daddy to all the other characters, marvelous Donal McCann brought himself to feckless ruin with a crooked smile and a shrug for Ingrid Craigie...
...Africa, the 1.5 million inhabitants of Ulster seem unable to bury the hatchet unless it is in one another. Part of the reason is that despite the mounting death toll, the problem of Northern Ireland is not considered sufficiently important to hold the attention of governments in London and Dublin, where the matter of Ulster and Irish partition must ultimately be decided. "The British," says Tony Benn, a Labour M.P. in London, "are not remotely interested in the Irish. When there is no trouble in Ireland, nobody discusses it. When there is trouble, it's too dangerous to discuss...
Even in the Irish Republic, unification is far down the list of national priorities, if indeed it ranks at all. Dublin is now preoccupied with European integration and getting its economic house in order. "We in the South have become so psychologically accustomed to partition that many people refuse to have anything to do with the North," says Garret Fitzgerald, the former Irish Prime Minister who worked out the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement with Margaret Thatcher. That pact gave Dublin a voice in negotiations over the fate of Northern Ireland and provided a new framework for discussing a settlement...
...fact, the adorable inheritors of a threatened Irish subculture, that of the Travellers, or Celtic Gypsies. It is their grandfather, who continues to follow the old, threatened ways, who brings the animal he calls ! Tir na nOg (Land of Eternal Youth in Gaelic) to them in the unhappy Dublin housing project where they live with their father (Gabriel Byrne), who abandoned his free-roving heritage after his wife's death...
Belgian police recovered two priceless works of art, Vermeer's Lady and a Maid Servant and Goya's Portrait of Dona Antonia Zarate. In one of the largest art heists of recent years, the paintings were stolen seven years ago from Russborough House, the Dublin-area home of the late Sir Alfred Beit, a private , collector. Three Irishmen and a Yugoslav were caught near Antwerp transporting the paintings, along with six other stolen works, in two rented cars...