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...than 300,000 East Europeans landed in Ireland. Low-cost flights to Dublin from Katowice, Cracow and Wroclaw were jammed for months. Newspapers sprang up to serve the new arrivals; bulletin boards outside churches across Ireland advertised for laborers with many of the notices written in Polish. In one English county, officials have begun adding road signs in Polish because immigrant truck drivers were getting confused...
...next hour-and-a-half writing my stories. While waiting on line at a cheesesteak truck, the time changed from 2 to 3. I dripped Cheez Whiz all over my sneakers, shared a cab ride with three girls intent on making “sexual” the English language’s most-used adjective, and proceeded on to the airport for a 6 a.m. flight. Next thing I know I’m being shaken awake by a beautiful stewardess named Michlain (yeah, I asked for the spelling...
...During the post-lecture discussion, Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature Homi K. Bhabha praised Burgin’s “resistance of the absurd drive to novelty and acceleration,” and the way his work “continually reflects on both media and mediation...
After fluently reciting pi in Chinese and English, Zhou slowed down as he enumerated 20 digits in French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spain, Thai, and Turkish...
...19th century Irish folk song, “Barley” follows Damien (Cillian Murphy of “28 Days Later,” “Red Eye,” and “Batman Begins”) as he attempts to suppress the abusive English Black and Tans alongside the Irish Republican Army (IRA). After a long and plodding exposition, Damien and his brother Teddy (Padraic Delaney) end up fighting each other in battle, the result of an English treaty which causes Irish civil conflict. While the Irish Civil War has not often been explored...