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...spine-tingling voice of Mairéad Ní Mhaonaig allowed the audience to be carried off to serene places and showcased her amazing ability to capture the beauty of a place with mere words. Many of the songs are inspired by rural Ireland and its charms...
...Mhaonaigh and her husband Frankie Kennedy decided to leave work and become professional musicians. Their gamble paid off and nearly twenty years later Altan expanded to include Dermot Byrne, Ciarn Tourish, Ciarn Curran, and Dithi Sproule and are widely regarded as the best Celtic band to emerge from Ireland...
...Japanese tooth-blackening practice of ohaguro. How the author manages to connect the 16th century European habit of dog turd-throwing, Dutch painting's depiction of the chicken groper, and a potted history of the sheela-na-gig (the wanton witch engraved in medieval churches across England, Ireland and Wales) is part of the book's but-I-digress charm...
...Harvard’s version of The Quiet Man, and if being compared to John Wayne—in one of his funniest performances in which he plays a boxer returned to Ireland to win over a fiery country girl and beat up her bullying brother—isn’t a compliment I don’t know what is. It’s also a statement on how humble (and barely audible) junior center Tom Cavanagh is. But this weekend, and actually for the three weeks of the ECAC playoffs, Cavangh’s on-ice performance...
...rate American medical researchers and drug companies are promulgating their dogmas, followers will rattle like pill bottles should they live to a ripe old age, and the elderly probably won't even be alert enough to know they have survived. Jeanette F. Huber Kinsale, Ireland...