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...setting is a tavern near Boston. The time is 1828. The hero is an O'Neill staple, the man of illusions-cum-sorrows, bottle-fed. With the aid of drink, Con Melody (Jason Robards) cultivates a highly colored remembrance of things past-the Gaelic gallant seducing the lovelies of Europe, the fearless cavalry major decorated on a Spanish field of honor by the great Wellington himself. In sorry reality, he is an impoverished tavern keeper too proud to tend bar as his father did in Ireland. Indeed, pride hagrides Con Melody, like the Greek Furies, except that...
...Flann O'Brien Reader aids and abets this judgment. Flannophile Stephen Jones has collected samples from four novels, a long Gaelic tale, stories, essays, teleplays and reams of humorous journalism. Jumbled together in this manner, the pieces gradually reveal a single mind behind the pseudonyms, one that was drunk with words and more than ready to defend fair language at the drop of a solecism...
...enough to lend the the medley a sense of unity. The medley on side two, however, is a strong, well-planned cut with good transitions throughout. While the drums and electric bass prevent it from merely imitating Irish traditional music, the piece remains true to the feel of the Gaelic sound...
...Movement Center. Redpath is from Fife, Scotland, but has been living in the U.S. for some time; she was once on the music faculty of Middlebury College. Peter Johnson, who is hosting the concert, promises music ranging from "classic child ballads to idyllic pastoral love songs in Gaelic." Admission is $3, call 352-6595 for more information...
...soul of a poet (for writing dirty limericks). The Irish obviously have a tremendous cultural advantage in all of these field; William Butler Yeats, sources say, would have made a phenomenal barkeep if he'd been about 25 pounds heavier. As it is, the average Gaelic male has just the right blend of good humor and patience to excel in the field. (In my own day, for instance, I once let a customer drink two bottles of Worcestershire sauce before calling a stop to the fun; and I didn't even charge...