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...This year’s Cultural Rhythms will feature a wide range of genres and styles, says Lee, including Clint Miller’s blues and bluegrass songs, Corcairdhearg’s Irish dance, and the Harvard Breakers’ street dance. “We’ve practised for about a month and a half... Our five minute performance is actually three routines combined into one. The routines are pretty different; while it’s mainly hip-hop choreography, one is much slower, set to a piano and with more fluid motion. We have this more distinct...
...Dublin for $799 per person, a night at the Ritz-Carlton Powerscourt (just south of Dublin) and a stay at the four-star Strand Hotel in Limerick. While you're on the road (the car rental is also included), you can stay four nights at any of 1,200 Irish Farmhouse Bed & Breakfasts. The same package is available from Chicago or Washington, D.C., starting at $949, and from San Francisco starting at $1,059. Book by Feb. 27 for travel from May 1 to June...
...Winthrop St. in 1992. It closed in 2003 after outgrowing its original space, which held only 180 people. After the House of Blues closed, Brother Jimmy’s, a southern-themed bar and restaurant, moved in for about two years. Tommy Doyle’s, an Irish-themed pub and restaurant, currently occupies the space. The House of Blues has since expanded into a national chain with about a dozen other locations. The concert promoter Live Nation bought the company in 2006. The music club chain’s new space at 15 Lansdowne St. was once occupied...
...Relations between U.S. Presidents and Canadian Prime Ministers have not always been so cordial. Ronald Reagan and Brian Mulroney, both of Irish descent, became fast friends who enjoyed fishing together and singing duets. The closeness of their friendship was a significant factor in the eventual signing of NAFTA. But Lester Pearson, Prime Minister in the '60s, delivered a scathing antiwar speech in Washington at the height of the Vietnam War. The next day at the White House, Lyndon Johnson issued a stern reprimand: "You peed on my rug!" Relations between the two never recovered. And Richard Nixon once famously called...
...entries—most of which are observational: “A senior boys’ blocking group is conducting a facial hair competition,” EL announced in its second post. Other posts offer less obvious information. “Sorry, ladies. It looks like your favorite Irish GZ senior may not be so single anymore,” said El. For Eliot residents, The El Word is not necessarily a source of juicy information. “It’s usually just stuff that everybody knows anyway,” said Eliot resident William C. Newell...