Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only tyro from outside the U.S. Appleby, who is 9th on the money list, is from Australia. At least four members of captain Seve Ballesteros' European Ryder Cup team are under 30: British Open runner-up Darren Clarke of Northern Ireland, 28; Lee Westwood of England, 24; Thomas Bjorn of Denmark, 26; and Padraig Harrington of Ireland, 25. "This youth thing is definitely catching on," says Kite...
...popular television comedian Steve Coogan, crafts intricately layered, well-observed, heartfelt plays in a realistic vein about contemporary relationships. McDonagh is more a folkwriter in the tradition of J.M. Synge. His macabre, wildly funny and over-the-top tragicomedies are slightly absurdist, set in remote parts of rural Ireland and peopled with comic grotesques--or literal grotesques, like the title character in Cripple, whom a young actor, Ruaidhri Conroy, plays with a convulsive total body limp of hideous and breathtaking precipitousness...
...South London house he shared with his brother, until two theaters--the Royal Court and the Druid Theatre in Galway--finally showed an interest in his work. Much has been made in the British press about his never having lived for any length of time in the Ireland he writes about so critically and so lushly. The question of his national origin is something of a biographical crux: Is he Irish or English? Everyone wants to know. "It's not that I don't consider myself an Irish writer," says McDonagh, whose parents are Irish, and who spent vacations with...
...honor of the 150th anniversary of the Irish Famine, Mary T. Robinson, president of Ireland, dedicated the first memorial in the United States to the event at Cambridge Common on Wednesday...
...famine was "the darkest hour in [Irish] history," she said, stressing that the memory of famine links Ireland with people of Irish descent around the world and with people of third world countries in "an understanding of how devastating...famine...