Word: irish-american
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...child of the frontier, born in scruffy Ely, Nevada; a daughter of the Depression, helping coax a living out of four acres of Southern California soil; a wife of the '50s, on the ladder to success. Christened Thelma Catherine Ryan, she was dubbed Pat by her Irish-American father, a miner, to mark her arrival on the eve of St. Patrick's Day. Eventually she made the nickname legal, but somehow she was always more a Thelma than a Patricia, the kind of girl that in those days was called spunky. Life was marginal -- an ice cream cone...
...Stanford, the cradle of the expression "Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western culture's got to go," interest in the debate seems to have peaked, even among the activists. Andrew J. Dworkin, news editor at The Stanford Daily, says that the newest ethnic club on campus is an Irish-American society and that most people remain unsure whether organizers are joking...
...cramped confines of Manhattan's Paddy Reilly's Music Bar, where signs such as PARKING FOR IRISH ONLY adorn the wall, patrons are lifting their glasses and raising their fists. On stage, the Irish-American rock band Black 47 is launching into a combustible version of the title song of their debut album Fire of Freedom. "Let's get this place moving," bellows lead singer Larry Kirwan. "These are songs of freedom, revolution...
This wave of Irish artists is also finding ideological inspiration in the antiEstablishment attitudes of rap and reggae; in addition, these musicians are reaching back into their country's heritage, using traditional instruments and singing about Irish political themes. Irish pop music experts point out that in the past few years the genre has diversified. There's House of Pain, an Irish-American rap group that features b-boy bravado and beer-soaked rhymes ("Coming with the style of a Celtic rebel/ Those that ain't on my level call me the blue-eyed devil"), and the Belfast grunge band...
...English Americans did not have to worry about the melting pot; they made the pot. African Americans, of course, have been in the frying pan or the fire for more than 300 years, while Irish-American Catholics, because of their religion and their clannishness, found themselves in a variety of brawls (often with Irish-American Protestants). But time has taken down the NO IRISH NEED APPLY signs, and if it doesn't do the same for blacks, it won't be for lack of decades of black and white effort...