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...Spain. They are drawn more than anything by the prospect of vacations or retirement in "Europe's Florida." "It's a question of supply and demand," says Karl Morris, managing director of Simple Overseas Properties in Benalmadena, near Málaga. "Flights are getting cheaper and Brits, Germans, Irish or French, for example, can be in Málaga in less than 21/2 hours. Many of them come once for a month or six weeks and then decide to retire to Spain." But the boom is flattening off. Housing prices, up by 17% in 2004 and a further 13.9% last...
...thrust stage, an innovation at the time, which juts into the orchestra section like a runway. Although inventive thrust staging became the signature of Guthrie directors--what else could they do?--there were times when they would have preferred a conventional proscenium. In the late 1990s, Joe Dowling, the Irish director who has headed the Guthrie since 1995, decided it was time to order up a new theater with multiple stages. After a review of more than 35 architects, a search committee settled unanimously on Nouvel. "We were taken by his concern for the surroundings," says Dowling. "It was important...
...late) through the persuasions of Desmond O’Grady. He haunted the Grolier when he was drunk. When he was sober, he was incredible, and every scene was a movie. He worked with William Alfred, the playwright and poet. To most of us, he was the stereotypical wild Irish poet who strode through the world bringing an almost magical power. Much later on, I met James Merrill and attended his reading of the first portion of The Changing Light at the Boston Athenaeum. The setting was old Boston, the light from the podium lit up his face, he read...
...dogs available on-site, he logged far more hours at the local ball field—which, as of this Saturday, will bear his name—in a given weekend than anyone actually competing, umpired when he was through managing, and returned home only after his fair Irish skin had been burned sufficiently red.Some marveled at his level of dedication and commitment, but Dad was never among them, and I don’t think he ever saw what he was doing as a “sacrifice,” like so many others did. He just genuinely...
Even though Mr. A, a convicted rapist, pulled his jacket over his head as he strolled out of a Dublin courtroom last week, a few dogged photographers managed to capture shots of his face. But the next day, every Irish newspaper that brandished his image had to blur out his features. The 41-year-old, who gave half a dozen Bacardi Breezers and vodka shots to his daughter's 12-year-old friend during a sleepover three years ago, and had sex with her when she woke up to vomit during the night, could not be identified - because...