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...emerald part of Ireland--its lush countryside--is on vivid display just a 30-minute drive (or bus ride) away at Powerscourt, a 14th century castle whose gardens unfold among the Wicklow Mountains. Renovated and expanded in the 17th century by the English Marshall of Ireland, the castle is a jewel of Georgian formality that has served as movie backdrop for Laurence Olivier's Henry V and Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon. Even if it's raining--and by St. Patrick, it's likely to be--spend some time along the trails winding through the 45-acre castle gardens...
...this month at the Venice Film Festival - it won the top prize there, as well as the critics' award at the Toronto Film Festival a week later - is Mullan's second feature-length work (after 1997's Orphans). The fact-based tale of four girls sent to one of Ireland's Magdalene asylums for wayward girls - often, it seems, their sin was simply being pretty and flirtatious - has little in common with Mullan's own background. But he has come to understand the connection between his story and the ones he tells in the film. "My father was our oppressor...
...just use the F word? The Ryder Cup runneth over with all kinds of emotion: nauseating anticipation at the first tee; knee-knocking nervousness before a key putt; champagne-soaked joy - for one side - at the end. "Golf is usually a selfish sport," says Northern Ireland's cigar-chomping Darren Clarke, who's playing in his third Cup. But the biennial U.S.-vs.-Europe showdown has a rare team spirit that appeals even to nonfans. This year's matches, Sept. 27-29 at the Belfry in Sutton Coldfield, England, a venue that has hosted the Cup three times before, should...
...sophomore Jeen-Joo Kang is among the veterans who promise success for this year. Though Kang’s summer spent working at the World Cup in Korea did not allow for golf practice, the team’s trip to Ireland sponsored by the Friends of Harvard Golf provided ample opportunity for everyone to get back in the swing of things...
When William Butler Yeats sat down to write about the 1916 Easter rebellion in Dublin, he knew it marked a rupture in Ireland's fabric. Before 1916 was one state of affairs; after it, all was "changed, changed utterly." Sept. 11, we have come to think, is an event for modern America much as Easter 1916 was for Ireland. At home the U.S. is supposed to be different from the way it was; abroad it has ostensibly found a fresh definition of its role in the world...