Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...luck of the Irish has always been their misery, at least where Ireland's writers have been concerned. Suffering makes for better stories than comfort does. Pain turns pages. And the best happy endings follow unhappy beginnings. (Although not always; see following review...
...support the family, so Henry runs wild, stealing from shopkeepers, sleeping under boxes and generally surviving on schemes and scams. He's a prodigy, strong and cunning and passionate, but as mired in misfortune as his native land, whose history soon becomes mixed up with his own. Henry and Ireland, Ireland and Henry--for Doyle they're the same big, bloody mess...
McCourt spoke humorously about his own British-style education in Limerick, Ireland, which abided by a strict question-and-answer format--the teacher asked and the students answered...
Lungren joins five other fellows at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) who will lead seven-week-long study group sessions on issues ranging from ethnic conflict in Ireland to editorial writing...
Jean Kennedy Smith, former ambassador to Ireland, will serve as the Heffernan Visiting Fellow and will lead weekly study groups on the peace process in Ireland. But as a Heffernan fellow, Smith, who also sits on the Board of Trustees for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, will not be in residence at the KSG for the entire semester...