Word: irishman
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Groups from some of Harvard's graduate schools have marched in the parade for the last three or four years and have always been well greeted, but as one Irishman noted last night, "In Southie, the graduate schools have always been considered fine professional schools, but Harvard College for years was considered to be the stronghold of Boston's old yankee families...
After the picketing the group will move to Andrews Square to join a parade that's older than the United States. The first South Boston St. Patrick's Day celebration ended in a riot in 1737. One local Irishman observes "it's still a big day for public drinking and minor politicians and you might eat beaten up for wearing orange...
PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! is an honest and lyrical, sentimental and humorous account of a young Irishman's preparations to leave his homeland for America. A uniformly excellent cast is headed by Dubliners Donal Donnelly and Patrick Bedford, who play the hero's inner and outer selves...
PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! is an honest and lyrical, sentimental and humorous account of a young Irishman's preparations to leave his homeland for America. A uniformly excellent cast is headed by Dubliners Donal Donnelly and Patrick Bedford, who play the hero's inner and outer selves...
...even with a more responsive audience, problems will remain. George Rosen is always droll as Finian, a dotty old Irishman who has stolen a crock of leprechaun gold and buried it near Fort Knox, an area he believes conducive to spontaneous generations. Carolyn Firth, his ready, nubile, and willing daughter, is a pretty girl and a charming actress. But neither of them seems quite at home in a brogue; Rosen at times simply deserts Belfast for Brooklyn. And Miss Firth, for all the attractiveness of her voice, shares with many of the other singers a tendency toward inaudibility...