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...Introduction to Noble Sports and Pastimes. White was not very good at falconry (goshawks and merlins kept getting away), but it became his passion; it had the advantage of belonging to the boyhood of history. Later, for perhaps the very same reason, he threw himself into the study of Gaelic, spent years translating a 12th century Latin bestiary, and became an armchair authority on the Emperor Hadrian...
PHYSICALLY, Carlotta Wilsen is a performer difficult to miss. Her brilliant red hair, and chiselled Nordic-Gaelic features, combined with statuesque height and posture to match, give her a striking concert presence, one that has not been seen here in a long time...
Looking more a Mad Armenian than a young Gaelic fighter is James Hoare as Diarmuid. Last night Hoare delivered most of his lines like a town crier, which may have been indicative more of first night uneasiness than anything else. In some seenes, especially the later ones with Finn, he was much more relaxed and much more effective...
James Hoare and David C. Perry provided the music--a pleasant Gaelic acid-rock...
...sentences might come from one of Joyce's notebooks for Finnegans Wake. He felt that words, not dreams, were the royal road to the unconscious, and Bernard Share, a 37-year-old Dubliner, shares the master's obsessions with them. Inish (Gaelic for "island" or "tell") consists mainly of a couple of dozen phrases and sentences as they are endlessly reworked in the heads of three frustrated men: Allen, Ecks and Jacet...