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...under Flynn’s direction, the festival has gained financial stability due to sponsorship from Magners. Magners has also allowed the festival to widen its demographic appeal to Bostonians in general as well as its traditional audience of Irish and Irish-American moviegoers, hoping that viewers will be drawn to the festival’s unique cultural spin on cinema. Flynn credits Boston as particularly open to cultural festivals, citing local events like the French Film Festival and the Armenian Film Festival...
...some, the O'Shaughnessy Dam is a monument to the skills of the Irish-American engineer who built it. Elegant is the word that Susan Leal, general manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, uses to describe the curved wedge of rock and concrete that soars 300 ft. above the floor of the Hetch Hetchy Valley. But to others, the dam, constructed nearly a century ago inside the western boundary of Yosemite National Park, is a mocking tombstone to a landscape whose haunting beauty has lain for too long beneath 100 billion gallons of water...
...film’s protagonist is an Irish-American known only as She (Joan Allen) living in London with her husband, the weary and unfaithful politician Anthony (Sam Neill). At a party, She encounters He (Simon Abkarian), a Lebanese chef, and the two embark on an affair that forces an assessment of themselves both as lovers and in terms of their religious and political identities...
Tommy is a lot like Leary's previous TV character, a self-destructive Irish-American cop on the ABC sitcom The Job. That show debuted in spring 2001 and then ran smack into the aftermath of 9/11, when TV executives were not exactly eager to air unsentimental treatments of public servants. But FX is a different network, a cable channel trying to distinguish itself with controversial series like The Shield and Nip/Tuck. And it's a different time: now New York City fire fighters have been making the news for infractions that involve drinking and drugs and for suffering budget...
Joseph Califano Jr. came barreling out of Brooklyn, N.Y., the son of a conservative Irish-American mother and a white-shirted Italian-American father who worked for IBM. He went to Catholic schools, to Harvard Law, to the Navy and then to a white-shoe Wall Street law firm...