Word: fenian
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...Joyce's book are missing. Since Strick has only 140 minutes at his disposal, he devotes most of it to the principal episodes: Stephen's soliloquy on the beach, Bloom's trip to Paddy Dignam's funeral, Bloom's brangle with the one-eyed Fenian in Kiernan's pub, Bloom's meeting with Stephen at Buck Mulligan's brawl, the nocturnal visit of Bloom and Stephen to Bella Cohen's brothel, Molly Bloom's magnificent end-spurt of soliloquacity...
Abstract Rage. Smith is good-naturedly modest about his works, which look like nothing so much as giant piles of children's blocks jumbled together. With a Fenian twinkle in his eye, he says that he doesn't even think of his works as sculpture at all. They are merely exercises in basic design, similar to those that he requires from his students at Manhattan's Hunter College. He built each piece originally in tiny paper tetrahedrons, octahedrons or dodecahedrons. After that, friends constructed the full-scale mock-ups in plywood and painted them with automobile undercoating...
...young village buckoes give up their Gaelic football in favor of what the parish curate calls the national pastime-giving the British "a touch" or two. They spy on airfields, raid military barracks to loot arms, and in general try to behave like true descendants of "the Bold Fenian...
...question is this: The Fenian Cycle, of which this tale is a part, is hundreds of years old. It is thought to have originated sometime around the 3d or 4th Century. Various versions of the tales were transmitted to manuscript from the 9th to the 11th Centuries, or even later. The particular manuscript from which this translation was made (by Dr. Gerard Murphy, of Dublin) is dated about 1627. In your opinion is the discrepancy in the size and ambition of lake monsters which comparison makes evident, the result of degeneration brought about by time (small t) or does...
...events, the falling of the curtain found the United States victor in its internecine war and still in friendly relations with Great Britain. Most of the issues of that day,--neutral rights, the Alabama Affair, the fishery controversy, the Fenian Brotherhood, expatriation and naturalization,--had been forgotten when in 1896 William Ewart Gladstone published his confessions...