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...fellowships. Most of his novels unfold in Irish villages, the sort of quiet rural places where one generation stays and tends the farm while the children leave to make a life in a faraway city. Don’t expect quaintness though: the villages are as modern-minded as Dublin or London. There is a lot of “post-” to the small lakeside village of By the Lake: post-World War II, post-migration, post-soccer riots, post-Irish Republican Army. It is a place where grandparents tune into “Blind Date?...
...there is the entrepreneur known as The Shah, who resolutely refuses marriage; Patrick Ryan, a gruff builder; Bill Evans, a survivor of Ireland’s horrific orphanages, who made it into old age quiet and strangely asexual. Gentle, blithe Jamesie and his wife Mary have grandchildren faraway in Dublin, while their friends Ruttledge and Kate, transplants from London, are childless. Because of the absence of children, the days carry a bittersweet sense of life living itself out rather than skipping hurriedly on to the next generation. Neighbors show each other a regard unknown in places where nuclear families tend...
...Larry Mullen who set the dream in motion. He posted a note on the bulletin board of Mount Temple, a public high school in Dublin, asking if there was anyone interested in forming a rock band. That was in 1976, and he was 14. Mullen had been playing drums since the age of nine...His parents finally gave him part of a set--made by a toy manufacturer and retailing for $15--at which young Larry happily flailed away until his father suggested he try to get a group together. The Saturday after the school notice went...
...Christians working in its government. Yet Saudi Arabia permits no religion but Islam. And what about Pakistan, home to a snake pit of anti-American extremists, where Westerners have been targeted, abducted and killed? America's first antiterrorist priorities should be Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. JOHN GRADY Dublin...
Though abortion is common, "even last year people were going around talking about the A word," says Evelyn Mahon, a sociologist at Trinity College Dublin. "It's our last great taboo." This debate has forced the issue into more open dialogue. The referendum "means that people have to confront an unpalatable truth," says McManus, health spokeswoman for the Labour Party, which opposes the proposal. "We do have a relatively high level of abortion...