Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Author O'Hanlon fulminates be cause he clearly loves his former coun trymen and women. He is too much the Irishman himself not to revel in the ver bal excitement of Dublin life and its "maddening, entertaining stew of provincial chauvinism." Inevitably, his book is crammed with old-chestnut anecdotes, pub gossip "laced with the in toxicating ingredient of malice," and sharp observations. Most of these, also inevitably, take a dying fall: the slipshod car-assembly center in Cork that turns out "lemons (or limes)"; those ash trays proudly bearing the Gaelic legend, Deanta sa tSeapain (Made in Japan...
...January and February on the Cape are brutal," Jimmy says. "especially February," Jimmy a dark Irishman from the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, and Louise have lived in Wellfleet two years. They are fortunate in finding work year round, in the summer, they both work at a restaurant in North Truro, in winter he works construction, sporadically, and she is a bank teller is Provincetown, Neither of them enjoys the job, but feels it is worth...
...wild-eyed oriental scurries about the group welcoming new arrivals. "Hey man. How are you?" he asks a yellow banded security man; short, Irish, build like a longshoreman. "You sure are looking goods continues the Oriental. But the Irishman is tough not good-looking. Perhaps this is a coded message that completes the gestalt of the scene; barren steppes, flooded with water, disappearing under a tide of people and their carefully-lettered banners ripped by the cold wind...
...national politics over the past 22 years will be entirely complete without this account by the man who operated so long at its stormy center. Larry O'Brien is one of the most decent men in a profession currently held in low esteem; he is also a tough Irishman who has shed more tears in joy and sorrow than ought to be allotted any single lifetime in politics...
Five new saints besides Mother Seton were also named by the Pope: three Spaniards, an Italian and one Irishman, Archbishop Oliver Plunket, primate of Ireland from 1669 to 1681. Beginning in 1673, Irish priests were forced into hiding or exile, and Plunket had to carry on his pastoral work in secrecy and disguise. Arrested in 1679, he was hanged by the English two years later on trumped-up treason charges. Given the bloody religious war now raging in Ulster, the choice of Plunket for canonization in the Holy Year of 1975 seemed to many politically inept...