Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sullivan said he suggested Dublin because it is a university city similar to Cambridge. He added that many Cantabridgians, including himself, are of Irish descent...
...Dudley Moore's case, biology would seem to be approaching destiny. Staggering on the heels of Peter O'Toole in My Favorite Year and The Stuntman, he plays the infinitely lovable, brutally sarcastic megalomaniac whose heart of gold is barely outlasting his liver. It's the Irish role, and we've seen it oh so many times before. Here, he portrays Jason Carmichael, "a witty, talented, acerbic, sarcastic, but always charming" and highly successful New York playwright. The day of his wedding to a glamorous socialite (Janet Eilber) also marks the beginning of a literary collaboration cum romantic entanglement with...
...press picks out events in a narrative. A succession of events, controversies and polls narrow the focus of a crowded race. It may be artificial, but it's manna to the journalist who can't remember if he last talked to Flynnigan of Dikearney. Finnegan was the cagey. Irish pol. Flynn, the liberal "goo-goo". King, the leftist. Incidents become symbolic stories that don't connect," not proven patterns but isolated signals between the lines. Thus Finnegan took his desk home from his School Board office: read. he's a plunderer. Larry DiCara let an illegal loan slip in from...
Finnegan, a former president of the Boston School Committee, also stuck to home territory Sunday, attending two West Roxbury house parties and dropping in on a neighborhood Irish social club late in the evening, as well as attending a dance in Dorchester...
...Dorchester native Saturday moved from a Beacon Hill supermarket to a Black and Hispanic section of Dorchester, to Finnegan turf in West Roxbury, to a house party at a posh Mission Hill row house, and then to a dinner and dance at the Knights of Columbus in the predominantly Irish South...