Word: dubliners
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...figures bearing placards. The film is a high-camp cocktail - a martini with gin and hemlock - that's shaken but not stirring. The Magdalene Sisters came to town fresh from copping the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. It's basically a women-in-prison movie, set in Dublin in the '60s, when some girls were sent to convent reformatories, which, at least as shown here, were run by some very nasty nuns. They flog the girls, make ribald fun of their naked bodies, drive them to despair or madness. The young cast squeezes every righteous tear from...
...that he or she is in search of a screwdriver rather than grilled swordfish. This is a shame, as the restaurant offers some excellent modern American food without the trip into Boston such a meal often necessitates. Grafton Street may be named after the pedestrian shopping district in Dublin, but its food is a far cry from traditional Irish dishes like boiled bacon and cabbage...
...make it out of Dublin, the meticulous gardens of St. Stephen's Green will do fine. The Hugh Lane Gallery and the newly remodeled National Gallery are worth a visit as well; each features collections of Irish and French Impressionists...
Dinner in Dublin is no longer the tragedy it used to be. Sleek, glass-walled restaurants are sprouting throughout the Temple Bar neighborhood. Here you'll find updated Irish cuisine such as Bruno's haunch of venison with celeriac mousseline and Eliza Blues' beautiful gooseberry tart. (The prices are updated too. Dinner at a top restaurant costs $60 a person, including wine...
...good night, or any bad one for that matter, will end in the pub with a pint of Guinness or Bulmer's sublime hard cider. With a pub for every 450 Dubliners, it's hard to go wrong, but two favorites are Thing Mote and the Stag's Head, which, a few years older than the American republic, is a traditional haunt of Trinity College students. Irish music is on tap nightly at O'Donoghue's Bar and the Temple Bar (in the heart of the neighborhood that shares its name), where you can also enjoy a beer garden...