Word: dubliners
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...appropriate that the just-concluded season of Samuel Beckett plays produced by the Gate Theatre of Dublin for the Lincoln Center Festival in New York City took place not in the Center's usual theater space but at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice (familiars call it the John Jay College of Criminal Knowledge). For the oeuvre of the Nobel Prize-winning Irishman contains testimony from, and about, people guilty of a long list of particulars, most particularly being born. They solemnly declare all crimes of commission and omission, which Beckett sets down in crystalline phrases that might...
...four months to find a way forward; the Union will return to the Lisbon treaty in October. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose country holds the rotating E.U. presidency, has set a deadline of the end of the year for Europe to overcome the Irish problem. He has traveled to Dublin on a listening tour of Irish voters, backpedaling from his intimations that they'd need to hold a second referendum. "I understand it's the Irish," he said, "who must decide...
...Connellan, the promise of a Europe freed from the ways of the past has long been an ideal. "I've seen the damage nationalism can do," she says. "Coming from Ireland, I was intrigued by the European Union as something built out of a peace process." In Dublin, she stood on street corners with fellow campaigners - "in really attractive yellow T shirts" - trying to convince the public that the Lisbon treaty would make the European Union simpler, more transparent and more democratic...
...biggest challenge for the clergymen may be coping physically. Their liturgical calendar involves up to two Masses a day, visits to the infirm and serving as local school chaplains. It's easy to see why Delargy, slouched on a couch at Dublin's Windmill Lane Studios, already complains of exhaustion. Yet they will only get busier. A British film team is shadowing them for a documentary airing this fall, and in September the group will record a concert at the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Armagh, Northern Ireland, for future broadcast on public TV stations across the U.S. The promotional travel...
...least, the Priests have faith that there is more than one way for them to glorify God. On a recent Saturday evening, after four days of recording in Dublin, Eugene drove three hours to his home in Ballyclare. Sometime after 10 p.m., he made final tweaks to the church newsletter before saying his prayers and going to bed. The next morning he delivered a sermon reminding parishioners that they must constantly nurture their relationship with the Lord. "As with any garden," he said, "if you don't tend to it, the weeds begin to take over." Good advice to those...