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...Kennedy Hill, 41, is a human-rights activist who did pediatric AIDS work for the U.N. In 1993 she married Paul Hill, who was jailed for 15 years for I.R.A. terrorism before a British court ruled his confession was fabricated. At 40, Courtney became the mother of Saoirse Roisin, Gaelic for "Freedom Rose." Kerry Kennedy, 38, works for Amnesty International and the R.F.K. Center for Human Rights. In 1990 she wed former New York Governor Mario Cuomo's son Andrew, now Secretary of Housing and Urban Development...
...answers, just click on BabyCenter.com a new Website for parents-to-be with a due-date calculator and tips from baby doc T. Berry Brazelton. Best of all: the baby-namer database of 5,000 given names, from Anglo-Saxon to Yoruban, searchable by gender, origin and popularity. A Gaelic name that starts with B? No problem: Blaine. Here's hoping your Yoruban baby isn't Aina: a "complicated delivery...
Flatley's robust sense of self, combined with a stupefyingly energetic stage presence, has made him the center of a cultural phenomenon few would have predicted--a rage for the jig. As star of the two-year-old, 85-member Riverdance, the traveling Gaelic dance show, Flatley hopped, stepped and high-kicked to exultant houses in London and Dublin. When he parted ways with the company in October 1995 over a bitter, and still unresolved, creative dispute, he fashioned Lord of the Dance, a glitzier rival extravaganza showcasing his talents and the updated, freer-form manner of Irish dance...
Heaney read two poems he had translated from Gaelic and two original poems, "Keeping Going" and "An Afterwards...
...Beckett play may aspire to silence, yet its characters can't shut up. The women, reminiscent of Beckett's Dublin youth, chatter on about postnuclear sunlight (Happy Days) or adulterous affairs (Play)--what's Gaelic for yenta? The men ponder the efficacy of torture (Rough for Theatre II, What Where), the memory of a mother's last days (Krapp's Last Tape, Footfalls). Their dialogue often sounds like bumper stickers for the clinically depressed: "Can there be misery loftier than mine?" asks Hamm in Endgame. But it is also savagely, and savingly, comic. As Beckett knew, all hope is comic...