Word: irishness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...author and his son are lunching at Grafton Street, discussing the novel that has shaped each of their perspectives of Harvard. The quintessential Irish Catholic Bostonian, Martin’s roots have been good to him, serving as muse for three novels that each chronicle the development of Massachusetts...
...including the Prime Minister—naming their favorite teachers, and climaxed (rather nauseatingly) with the catchphrase, “Those who can, teach.” Had they asked me—I was, shockingly, snubbed—I would have chosen Jane Sillery, the Northern Irish firebrand who taught me history during my last two years before college...
...have no idea why she said that,” she says. The two Harvard seniors are seated at the end of a long, upstairs table, enjoying sporadic interactions with cast members who are frequently interrupted by cell phone calls. With country music blaring behind him, Ace recounts his Irish bar stories and his exploits as a restaurateur. “They can drink Guinness and tequila like nothing,” he says of the Irish...
While Boston is the mecca of contra dance, an Americanized form of Old English and Scotch-Irish line dancing, Newman has been playing in contra bands since the age of 13, and counts himself as part of the “great diaspora of contra dancing” he says has spread all the way to Alaska. He not only plays the tenor banjo, mandolin, guitar and contra piano, but also wrote his Harvard admissions essay on contra and community building. “My admissions officer wrote me and said, ‘We need you here to liven...
Rough Landings Ahead After the European Commission's ruling last week that discounts granted to Irish budget airline Ryanair by Belgium's publicly owned Charleroi airport constituted illegal state aid, CEO Michael O'Leary cried: "We consider this...