Word: dubliners
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...media may be all Anthrax all the time, but many European papers are giving more front page space to the war in Afghanistan. The Europeans have been all over comments by U.S. officials about the tenacity of the Taliban and dim prospects for snaring Bin Laden. Dublin's Irish Independent suggests the media missed the real story in last weekend's special forces raid at Kandahar, which the paper suggests encountered far heavier resistance than had been expected. "There was blanket and mainly adulatory media coverage on both sides of the Atlantic with the prognosis that the ground...
Every Christmas, the “three graces of Dublin,” the elderly sisters Julia and Kate Morkan, along with their niece Jane, hold a traditional party. At the party that the audience attends are a host of assembled characters somehow familiar but whom only Joyce could have written with any spark: a taciturn opera singer, an oddly cantankerous young girl, a merry drunkard and his mother (who manages to make Herod’s wife look like Mrs. Brady). All of these characters are auxiliary to Joyce’s self-referential creation, Gabriel (played with remarkable...
...IRELAND Two decades after it first formed, the Dublin-based band still hasn't found what it's looking for. It has remained inventive, hungry and committed to social causes. Key albums: The Unforgettable Fire, The Joshua Tree and All That You Can't Leave Behind...
There have certainly been other great moments to be in U2 over the course of the past two decades. The band's previous outing, the Popmart tour--when the boys from Dublin appeared in a huge onstage lemon and got pelted by (metaphorical) rotten fruit by critics in the U.S.--probably wasn't one of them. But their latest CD, All That You Can't Leave Behind, which was released last October, went to No. 1 in 32 countries, won the band three Grammys and helped spark an acclaimed, sold-out tour. Building on the fresh momentum, U2 is gearing...
...gaze entrance. "When I talk to him, I feel like a plant that?s been watered" (Marlene Dietrich). "It?s like meeting God without dying" (Dorothy Parker). He landed in the American consciousness like Gulliver among the Lilliputians, his prodigious youth the stuff of theatrical legend: playing at Dublin?s Gate and Abbey Theatres at 16, starring on Broadway at 19, forming his own theater at 21. And then he outstripped that early promise with an achievement glorious and voluptuous...