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...THIS starts when Napoleon finds out that his temptress is part English and part Irish. The combination, he says, after having been thoroughly fooled, may be the only formula to defeat him on the battlefield--a foreboding of his defeat by the Irish-born General Wellington leading the English army at Waterloo...
...bearded 22-year-old in the green mesh T-shirt wearing number 16 became the 78th winner of the Boston Marathon yesterday. The Irish-born Cusack ran away from the pack to finish the 26-mile, 385-yard course in 2:13:39, the second fastest victory ever for the B.A.A. event...
Died. Cecil Day-Lewis, 68, Irish-born critic, novelist and poet laureate of England; of cancer; in Hertfordshire, England. C. Day-Lewis came to prominence during the '30s as one of the Oxford poets, a group that included W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Stephen Spender. His work mixed slang, sardonic wit and radical thought in poetic-political commentary. By 1968 Day-Lewis had moved far enough away from Marxism to become poet laureate, but he enjoyed his greatest popularity as Nicholas Blake, the pseudonym he used in writing more than a score of moneymaking detective stories...
...theater, the luck of the English has been the Irish. From Sheridan and Farquhar through Synge, Shaw and O'Casey, Irish-born dramatists have adorned English speech with tears, wit and poetic music. All the great Irish writers possess the gift for lightening or deepening the color of language. They bring to it both a larky playfulness and a brooding melancholy. They are the unofficial patron saints of English, and it is these saints of the word whom the distinguished Irish actress Siobhan McKenna is honoring in a superior one-woman show called Here Are Ladies. Selections...
That's about the best shot I had at Jimmy Fair, a fiery Irish-born physical therapist who spends his afternoons patching up athletes at the Dillon Clinic...