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...Connor's hero is a gabby old stage Irishman named Daniel Considine. A former professional hoofer, he turns up suddenly one night at the home of his son in an unnamed city that is quite obviously meant to be Boston. Daniel has not seen or thought about his son in some 20 years, but he settles down in an upstairs bedroom to live out what promises to be a long and madding old age. In the eariy hours of the morning, before anybody else is astir, he can be heard shuffling through an old dance routine and quavering...
What help he gets comes from a bespectacled Irishman, Tom Duffy, who first introduced Thomas to the high-jump bar nine years ago at Rindge Technical high school in Cambridge, Mass. "John was a little string bean," recalls Duffy. "He had decided he wanted to be a tennis player. I had to get that idea out of his head, and the only way I could do it was to take him out on the courts and lick him pretty good. Once that was done, he was ready to jump...
After all those nights with the iguana down Mexico way, Director John Huston, 57, must have been getting used to "Juan." But it turns out he prefers "Sean." An Irishman by heritage, and a between-films resident of the Ould Sod for twelve years, the Missouri-born Huston has renounced his U.S. citizenship in favor of becoming Irish. "A person should be a citizen of the country in which he lives," said he. "I suppose it's a sort of atavism-a desire to get back to my ancestral roots. I've been thinking of this move...
...Holy Ireland." The exodus from Ireland, which Novelist George Moore ironically justified by calling Ireland "a fatal disease" from which "it is the plain duty of every Irishman to dissociate himself," continued after the country won its independence from Britain in 1921. As in most other newly liberated countries, the men who took over were romantic revolutionary heroes, steeped in the Otherworld but ill prepared by experience to meet the practical challenges of building a modern nation...
...shoe-banging tantrum-are universally respected. In the Congo, where 5,000 Irish troops have served-and 26 died -with the U.N. peacekeeping mission, their probity and discipline command the admiration of Africans and Belgians alike. The experience has added a new term of abuse to the Irishman's copious vocabulary of invective: "You bloody Baluba!"* The U.N. Irish have taught many a native to dance a jig. Says a captain from Cork: "Only the Irish and other heathens can appreciate our dahling pipes...