Word: dubliners
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...Hillel, and “much greater than normal” snowfall, according to the Almanac. Not to mention the chill factor: temperatures will be “colder than normal in December and exceptionally cold in the second half of January.” Where does the Dublin, N.H. based publication derive its clairvoyant powers? From its founder’s “secret formula,” created according to his theory that “weather on Earth was influenced by sunspots, which are magnetic storms on the surface of the sun.” Along...
...year-old boy in Dublin when a man first walked on the moon. It wasn't just any man--it was an American. I thought I already knew something about America from Elvis, the movies and the hip gear sent home by Irish people who crossed the Atlantic. But now American meant something new. It meant having a sense of infinite possibility, doing the things everyone says can't be done. Even this freckle-faced Irish kid could see that America went to the moon not just because it was a scientific milestone--a career move for the human race...
Brilliant and beer-soaked, this book is ostensibly about a lazy, poor student who's writing a novel. But he loses control of his characters, and they get mixed up with local Dublin types and figures out of Gaelic myth who collide and commingle in glorious, category-defying cacophony...
...improving. In June the Irish language was adopted as one of the official working languages of the European Union, and special recognition was afforded Basque, Catalan and Galician. Welsh voices have demanded - quite rightly - that their language be accorded status similar to that of Irish. Colm de Faoite Dublin Portugal's ethnic minorities are such a minority that they don't even appear in your article! As an example of good ethnic-minority integration, the Mirandese dialect, spoken by approximately 10,000 people in northeastern Portugal, was recognized by the state in 1999 as the second language in that area...
Mullen, who added Junior to his surname after his father began to receive large tax bills meant for his prosperous son, lives on a beach near Dublin. His girlfriend does office-temp work, so she is free to join the tour at frequent intervals. "I live in a nice house and don't feel bad about it," he says. "But I don't drive a flashy car, first of all because I don't want to, and second of all because I think that would be rude in a country like Ireland, where there is high unemployment." Clayton lives...